Journal of the Plague Years

<p><strong>In this compelling collection of personal journal entries an award-winning writer responds to the grief and fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic and other civilization-threatening dangers.</strong></p><p></p><p>After a year of weekly entries John Rember ended his <em>Journal of the Plague Years: End Notes</em> in March of 2021. But the pandemic wasn't over. This second volume<em> Ghost Dance</em> starts in September 2021. It expands the meaning of plague to include wars population growth undeniable climate change increasingly corrupt and fraudulent politics toxic social media and a murderous tribalism. </p><p></p><p>Obviously the times still needed a witness.</p><p></p><p><em>Ghost Dance </em>is a collection of essays examining human attempts to impose grace on a world where a chaotic present has cut ties with the remembered past. Like the original ghost dancers these writings focus on the green world that still exists beneath a human-constructed reality. Rember looks for the stories and the rituals that might however improbably make that world a place where humans can live.</p><p></p><p>Written at a time near the end of this country's history the three volumes of <em>Journal of the Plague Years</em> offer a primary source for historians of the future should there be any.</p>