The Blackout and the Lines Coming Down

The story is set in April of 2020 and Laurie must have written it that summer. I feel as though by that point we were already in a different era. It almost was historical fiction at the time. And now it feels like historical fiction in that it brings back a different world. Yeah. It brings it back, but at the same time, like all good fiction at a sort of fundamental level, it's a story about losing your parent.