Stolen:
Love and Loss in the Time of COVID-19
For many people, the pandemic was an inconvenience, but for my family, it changed our lives forever.
What People are saying about
STOLEN: LOVE AND LOSS IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
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"March 2020, New York City. A vivid day-for-day diary that gives a rare insight into the lives of one woman, her son, her mother, and her wife as they deal with the complexities of the new mystery disease, Covid. With the turning of each page, we witness their sorrow, their anger and helplessness as they must watch as her father ultimately dies an untimely and lonely death. Emotional and gripping, this is a beautifully written testament to how a global disaster can affect us on a most personal level. It is a story no one should forget."
—Kerstin Lieff, author of Letters from Berlin
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"The author does an exemplary job of weaving together a cohesive narrative from a jumble of pivotal emotions, experiences, influences, and memories during a time of extreme uncertainty. She includes vivid details of her once private emotional truths. While most people will have some degree of familiarity with her story, future generations will learn of the utter devastation that COVID-19 left in its wake."
— Florence Osmund, Direct Book Reviews (Read the full review here.)
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"Stolen: Love and Loss in the Time of COVID-19 by Elizabeth Jaeger is an exceptionally intimate, unflinching memoirs I’ve read in recent years. In a world oversaturated with distant, clinical accounts of the pandemic, Elizabeth Jaeger offers something heartbreakingly rare: a deeply personal narrative of loss that is both sharply detailed and universally resonant."
— Heena Rathore-Pardeshi, The Reading Bud (Red the full review here.)
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Stolen: Love and Loss in the Time of COVID-19 brings you into the heart of Jaeger's family as they come to terms with her father's death and learn to cope with his absence. In flashbacks throughout the narrative, vignettes illustrate her dad in happier times–a doting father, an adoring grandfather, a man who always put family first.​
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