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reviewed Fourteen Days by Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood: Fourteen Days (2022, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company) 3 stars

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, …

Nice premise but disappointing execution

3 stars

A nice premise - strangers in lockdown in the same apartment building, gathering on the roof and exchanging stories. Each character written by a different (unknown until the end) author. I'm a huge Margaret Atwood fan so I was really looking forward to this one. But the stories were too disjointed and mostly uninteresting. I only started enjoying it in the last two chapters, where there is a little development in the plot and a twist.