For some reason I completely forgot to mention this book in my last book post. Maybe it’s because I read it so quickly it completely went out of my head. I actually enjoyed this book a lot. I found it fascinating to tell a story that sort of ripples out from one person to all these different people that were in their life at different moments. The fact that it was written just a few years pre-pandemic and talks about a devastating global pandemic is pretty wild. I can imagine the author must have felt like Apollo with the gift of prophecy once COVID hit and everything went down. Thank goodness the real-life pandemic didn’t mirror the one she wrote about exactly!
I particularly liked that theater and what it adds to the human experience was such a big part of this book. The only complaint I would have was that I wanted time to know more about everybody who was a part of The Traveling Symphony. I just Googled the novel and learned that there was a television miniseries made about it in 2021. Jesus, bad enough that this book about a pandemic came out just a few years before COVID hit, but they were also beginning to develop the miniseries based on it in 2019 RIGHT before it actually hit. How eerie that must have been for everyone involved with it.
Unfortunately I don’t have access to HBO Max anymore, or I would definitely check it out. Even though I’m somewhat loathe to let my own personal brain’s versions of the characters be replaced by the actors who played them. If anyone else has read the book and seen the miniseries, let me know if it’s worth watching.
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