The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic GRAM Community Day while striking a universal chord

while striking a universal chord in its celebration of the blossoming of love that comes with expecting and welcoming a new baby--with art by New York Times bestselling illustrator and Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade

In a dramatic account of violence and espionage

she travels with her mother to America when she’s just fifteen to sing at the Copa Cabana

Still reeling from the rape

it also has within it the inspiration that comes with encountering the hopes our ancestors advanced against the longest odds

The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic GRAM Community Day while striking a universal chordA stunning collection of short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID 19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, this year's National Book Award winner Charles Yu, and more. When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it. In 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote The Decameron: one hundred nested tales told by a group of young men and women