"By the 19th century cholera “was one of the fastest-moving, most feared pathogens in the world,” sickening hundreds of millions."
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is a writer you must pay attention to.
Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
She is alone and an insomniac who falls asleep listening to the “low murmurings about road traffic accidents of drunken altercations outside Level 2 Nightclub on All Saints Passage, all of which she can safely ignore because they are far too lowly for the Major Incident Team,” on an unauthorized police radio on her bedside table.
Problems by Jade Sharma
I had not planned to spend the afternoon with a drug addict.
Women Who Write
A lot of books enter my house. A lot of books join the “shelf of aspirational reading.” Many of us have this shelf. You know, the shelf that carries everything from the “I am dying to read the new book by….(fill in the blank)” to this is the “hot debut novelist that is getting great reviews” or the “I picked this up at the airport, looked great, but I fell asleep on the flight, must pick it up again” book. You have a reasonable chance of getting to these books.