Book 41 of my 2023 Reading Challenge
read on April 30
The Way the World Ends
by Jess Walter
My Opinion
4 stars
This is a short story from the Warmer collection available through Prime Reading. It had a lot of material for a short story but didn't feel overcrowded. The setting of a storm added to the surreal nature and made some uncharacteristic behaviors feel plausible.
This story was also the first time I'd heard of Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder and after reading about it further, it makes a lot of sense both as an anxiety indicator but also as a natural reaction to some jobs. In this setting it was applied to climate researchers but I would imagine hearing more about it from healthcare professionals and scientists as we continue to analyze the aftereffects of Covid.
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