Journal of the Plague Years

<p><strong>This astonishing collection of journal entries is a testament to resilience in a world made up of shards of the past.</strong></p><p></p><p>If a Roman citizen in 410 C.E. had kept a journal of everyday life and its fears joys and hopes it would be a treasured historical document especially when civilization has fallen apart.</p><p></p><p>In April 2023 John Rember began writing his third and final volume of <em>Journal of the Plague Years</em>. Convinced that we are living among ruins cultural political and spiritual he focuses on finding agency in the only place it still exists: between individuals who treat each other with dignity and compassion.</p><p></p><p>The essays in <em>Aftermath</em> explore how cherished ways of living are being lost to artificial intelligence a relentlessly warming climate the imminent end of fossil fuels and inhuman wars. But happiness is still possible even when it must coexist with grief.</p><p></p><p>Marked by humor honesty and love the three volumes of <em>Journal of the Plague Years </em>witness a time near the end of this country's history and offer a primary source for historians of the future should there be any.</p>