Heroics, Amy Roost
Heroics, Amy Roost
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(Her)oics
Women's Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Author: Amy Roost, Joanell Serra

Narrator: Amielynn Abellera, Frankie Corzo, Suzanne Toren, Karen Chilton, Samara Naeymi

Unabridged: 10 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/30/2021


Synopsis

(Her)oics: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic draws together the stories of fifty-two women across the U.S. during the Covid-19 pandemic. The collection encompasses the perspectives of women who are: frontline responders and recovering patients; going out to work, staying home to work,
and losing their jobs; living with multiple generations and living in isolation; women grieving loved ones and celebrating new love; women preparing to give birth and supporting the dying. Although differing based on location, age, race, and health, they share the unique capacity of women to bring their strength,
ingenuity and love—for others and for self—to an uncertain time. The anthology is inspired by both the risks of the pandemic inherent to women and their tremendous role in the country’s response.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lainey on March 11, 2021

Really appreciated this collection of short essays, where women from all walks of life share their experiences, centered on the first months of the pandemic in 2020. Reading these pieces feels like a piece of living history. The cancer survivor, the lesbian artist, the mother of two sons with develo......more

Goodreads review by Katherine on May 24, 2021

(Her)oics is a collection of beautifully crafted essays by women about life during the Coronavirus pandemic, but it also so much more. Each piece provides an intimate view of life for a woman with her own struggles, her own unique experiences, and illuminates how those experiences were shaped by the......more

Goodreads review by Katelyn on December 27, 2020

These are powerful stories of women at the beginning of the pandemic, during shut down. The editors have gotten a wide variety of points of view. I tore through this. It brought me back to those haunting first days where it felt like the ground was shifting underneath our feet. Highly recommended.......more

Goodreads review by Reva on May 12, 2021

Amazing!!! Very diverse stories from brilliant writers.......more

Goodreads review by Shadira on January 11, 2022

These are remarkable times and call on all of us to become even more remarkable people. I bow to these women and hope all can read their stories of courage, failure, despair and love. In addition, these stories give proof to what some of us have known all along: that the challenges, deep service and......more