“Amy Kaler doesn’t pretend to provide answers or counsel the uncertain, but instead offers a record of in-betweenness–including crucial questions about work, identity, safety and health–in a time of change.” Tanis MacDonald, author of Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female
Authors
- Pages
- 176
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- Edmonton, CA
Table of Contents
- Front cover 1
- Title page 4
- Copyright page 5
- Epigraph 6
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgements 12
- Introduction 16
- The Beginning 20
- Spring 2020 26
- Before, After 28
- Concentration 29
- Returns 31
- Breathe 33
- Airport Security 34
- Crossing New Thresholds 35
- The Crash 37
- Summer 2020 40
- On Trails 42
- What Are You Looking At? 43
- Twice-Blooming Lilacs 46
- Curiosity Cabinet 48
- All the Futures 51
- The Licence Plate 53
- Bewildered 54
- Covid Anxiety 56
- Downward 58
- Crime and Punishment/Everything Is Free 59
- Objects 62
- Where Is Here and Where Is There? 64
- The End of Science World 66
- Why I Can’t Think 68
- Fall 2020 72
- Medicine 74
- Masks 75
- The Places Where People Are Not 77
- Emergencies and Disasters 79
- In the Airport in October 80
- Peak Personal Responsibility 81
- Resignation and the Second Wave 84
- The River is Alive 86
- De-Escalation 88
- Normalized/Panicked 90
- It’s All Fucking Bullshit 91
- Watching the Election 92
- The Fresh Horrors Device 93
- The Campsite 95
- Pandemic Melancholy 96
- Winter 2021 100
- Time of Trial 102
- Vacation Scandal 103
- Schadenfreude 107
- Hermits 109
- Buffalo Bill’s Defunct 111
- Be Kind 112
- Like a Drug Deal 114
- Hi Mom, It’s Me 115
- Subtle Loss 116
- Ice Is Solid and Liquid 117
- Rules and Vacations 118
- Ice, Again 120
- Who Are You Going to Believe? 121
- No Time at the North Pole 123
- Getting Better or Not? 124
- Hard Freeze 126
- Falls the Shadow 127
- Jellyfish Time 129
- Walking into the Hill 130
- Moon Illusion 132
- Time Dividend 134
- Adolescent Bardo 137
- Proprioception 138
- Lost Places and the Annual Lockdown 140
- Spring 2021 144
- Two Futures 146
- Brain Studies 147
- Skiing 150
- This Is Your Brain on Covid 153
- Ravine and Downtown 155
- The Place Becomes Strange 157
- Life on Mars 160
- Leonard Cohen at the Whistle Stop Café 161
- Desolation 164
- Coda 170
- Vaccine Theology 172
- References 178
- About the Author 183
- Other Titles from University of Alberta Press 185
