2020* The Year of the Asterisk

FREE SHIPPING 2020* The Year of the AsteriskAmerican EssaysEdited by Greg GerdingPublication Date: October 19, 2021Trade Paper; 254 pages; 5-1/4" x 8"ISBN 978-1-938753-42-8ESSAY ANTHOLOGY DESCRIPTIONIs it over? Are we safe yet? What the hell happened? Or, rather, more aptly: What didn’t happen? In 2020, we were deceived and misled. Each day offered a new challenge, revealed some new horror, and there was no relief in being told it was simply the nature of the world, the nature of our society. 2020 was the kind of thing that happens to people in textbooks, except it was happening in real time to all of us. We probably need group therapy to make sense of it all, to address our individual and collective wounds. This book is in pursuit of doing just that: Offer some kind of catharsis to the whole ordeal. “2020 is shaping up to be one of the most garbage years in American history. What statement do you want to make about it?” This was the prompt advanced to writers of the essays in this col