2020 booker prize winner

Eric Klinenberg is Professor of Sociology Public Policy and Media Culture and Communications at New York University He is the author of Going Solo The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone The Penguin Press 2012 Fighting for Air The Battle to Control America s Media Metropolitan Books 2007 and Heat Wave A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago University of Chicago Press 2002 as well as the editor of Cultural Production in a Digital Age and of the journal Public Culture His scholarly work has been published in journals including the American Sociological Review Theory and Society and Ethnography and he has contributed to The New York Times Magazine Rolling Stone Time Magazine Fortune The Wall St Eric Klinenberg is Professor of Sociology Public Policy and Media Culture and Communications at New York University He is the author of Going Solo The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone The Penguin Press 2012 Fighting for Air The Battle to Control America s Media Metropolitan Books 2007 and Heat Wave A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago University of Chicago Press 2002 as well as the editor of Cultural Production in a Digital Age and of the journal Public Culture His scholarly work has been published in journals including the American Sociological Review Theory and Society and Ethnography and he has contributed to The New York Times Magazine Rolling Stone Time Magazine Fortune The Wall Street Journal The Nation The Washington Post Slate Le Monde Diplomatique The London Review of Books and the radio program This American Life site_link Renowned sociologist and best selling author Eric Klinenberg turns a year of devastation into a year of revelation in this wise deeply researched and cathartic account of the pandemic A gripping deeply moving account SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE author of The Song of the Cell What unites us What divides us What do we value Sociologist Eric Klinenberg had been studying what crises reveal about societies for over two decades when his home of New York became the deadliest hot spot of the global pandemic In this book he tells the deeply reported stories of seven ordinary people trying to survive at the epicentre of the crisis and combines them with data gathered from around the world to provide unprecedented insights into what societies are made of why they come together or fall apart and how they shape our lives Compellingly reveals what the pandemic laid bare about our culture our institutions and ourselves Matthew Desmond author of Evicted A book that s at once intimate and far ranging that reveals the importance of social solidarity and also its fragility Elizabeth Kolbert author of The Sixth Extinction 2020 A Reckoning4 Stars Core Memories unlocked again We all have our own stories to tell of how the year 2020 shaped our lives New York based author scholar and sociologist Eric Klinenberg followed seven NYC residents through this tough time to see how the pandemic shaped their year 2020 and beyond He thereby created an interesting kaleidoscope of different fates that one can definitely see parallels in with their own lives at the time but the book ultimately felt a little bit all over the place and did not 100% know what it wanted to be. 2020 meaning What I found interesting is that the author connected the stories of these seven individuals with the broader political happenings at the time around the globe but with a clear focus on US politics that is It s these parts which bring back the dreadful memories of how badly and how differently so many governments around the world handled the outbreak in the early stages From just bad communication to outright denial to one rule for thee one rule for me politicians it brought back memories in me long buried but by doing so made them even critically reviewable given how much time has passed and how the world has changed for the better or for worse since then. Onix 2020 It s these parts though the recollection of single political anecdotes of the time that feel very all over the place and definitely lack a sense of chronological order or system Having these broader global happenings sprinkled in with the very magnified closer looks at the individual stories made the book pull out and move into a single story again often than it needed to For me a few chapters dedicated to the chronological global happenings separate from the seven individuals would have done a better and cleaner job here. Nissan qashqai 2020 n tec That being said I still enjoyed my time with this book as much as one can enjoy reliving such a dreadful time to begin with Because aside from a broad recollection of such terrible memories the book also gives voice to the lesser talked about sides of the pandemic The huge discrepancy of mortality in social and cultural minorities especially of POC compared to the white majority The huge mental impact it had on individuals living and or being alone at the time socially distanced from friends and family And the huge impact it had and has on kids and teenagers to this day most of them still suffering from worse grades lost chances and ruined childhoods compared to the generations before It is therefore an important time capsule 2020 One that is not absolutely perfect in its execution but will be an important piece of history down the line Social Sciences Excellent This is the book I have been waiting for Or one of them at least It was tricky during the pandemic to order my thoughts efficiently about what was going on amid all the politicking and speculation and disinformation and the emotion of our own struggles and losses At the time I would say I m looking forward to a hindsight book in a few years time with some proper stand back analysis of this thing we are living This book is a really good start for that It s America based but takes in the global scene It looks at all the obvious questions about what constituted an effective response to the virus the reasons when things went awry questions about inequality of experience etc. Epub 2020 etc It s all a bit mood dampening Though in the midst of it there are some heartwarming accounts of the best of human nature not just the awful worst I liked the way the overviews and statistics were interspersed with detailed individual narratives that grounded the experience in real human lives I appreciated the foresight that went into making this complex research project happen Thank you Social Sciences