Andrew Highsmith News Today

Detroit writer Kelsey Ronan’s debut novel poses rich questions about how we carry the collective histories of the places and people we come from.

Print We’ve all made sacrifices during the pandemic. But physician Bobby Sasson, who was exposed daily to the threat of COVID-19 in her job at a UC Irvine medical center, made a particularly difficult one last spring. For the protection of her husband and three young children, she moved out of the family house. At the time, she thought she’d be able to return home before long. But that didn’t work out. Let’s go back to March of 2020, the early stages of the pandemic. With a diabetic hus...