PositiveChicago Review of BooksGabbert wrote these essays before the coronavirus pandemic, but the somber conclusions she draws from past disasters can be easily applied to our current emergency ... For all of the prescience in the first two sections, some of the essays in Part Three feel prematurely aged ... Gabbert’s timely essays consider how to navigate this new reality, and the duality of knowing disaster is imminent, but living as if the future is bright. As Gabbert writes at the end of the essay \'Doomsday Pattern,\' \'I feel this way all the time now. Nothing is safe. Everything’s fine.\'
