Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns Fourteen Days is
a surprising and irresistibly propulsive novel with an unusual twist: each character in this
diverse eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different major
literary voice?from Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One
week into the COVID-19 shutdown tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan
have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night more and more
neighbors gather bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the
tenants?some of whom have barely spoken to each other?become real neighbors. In this
Decameron-like serial novel general editor Margaret Atwood Authors Guild president Douglas
Preston and a star-studded list of contributors create a beautiful ode to the people who
couldn't get away from the city when the pandemic hit. A dazzling heartwarming and ultimately
surprising narrative Fourteen Days reveals how beneath the horrible loss and suffering some
communities managed to become stronger. Includes writing from: Margaret Atwood Douglas Preston
Celeste Ng Emma Donoghue Dave Eggers John Grisham Diana Gabaldon Ishmael Reed Meg
Wolitzer Luis Alberto Urrea James Shapiro Sylvia Day Mary Pope Osborne Monique Truong
Hampton Sides R. L. Stine Scott Turow Tommy Orange and more!
