![]() ![]() In a brief autofictional account, Glass, herself a children’s nurse in London, conveys the burdens borne by first responders and an ever-sickening populace. So arrives the first wave of the COVID-19 novels – even if “Rest and Be Thankful,” which was first published in the United Kingdom in March, is an inadvertent one. ![]() “We are cotton buds sucking up the sadness of others,” Laura professes, surveying another 12-hour shift of literal blood, sweat and tears. ![]() With lives in the balance, she and her colleagues avail themselves at the expense of their own well-being. We will wake up one day in a wasteland, surrounded by the crumbling bones of those who loved us and waited for us to love them back.”Ī nurse in a pediatric hospital, Laura veers between the emotional highs and enervating lows of emergency medicine, subsisting on caffeine and a hard-wired sense of duty. “We absorb pain, too thick with mess to notice that everything around us is drying up and growing over. “We share this space where we are always on hold and are always on call,” affirms Laura, the narrator of Emma Glass’s new novel “Rest and Be Thankful,” describing her fellow health care workers. ![]()
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