Over the last three months, 17 writers provided diaries to the Times of their days in isolation, followed by weeks of protest. This is their story.It’s easy to get going, because Van den Berg is such a master of setups — like the stunning first line from “Last Night,” the book’s first story: “I want to tell you about the night I got hit by a train and died. The thing is — it never happened.”
It’s one of a handful of pieces that inhabit a youthful brain, in this case a woman who was once institutionalized in rural Florida. She recalls being “angry they wanted me to live.” Yet the story isn’t so much about “them” as about the narrator as she looks back on her former self, as well as two other patients. “We had our whole lives in front of us —If we chose to. What power!” she declares.
In the super-creepy “Slumberland,” a former wedding photographer who now works in pet portraiture is traumatized by the loss of her son and spends much of her time surreptitiously shooting her neighborhood at night . Even the cops are sketched out by her hobby. “These are not illegal per se,” an officer says. “But they are troubling all the same.
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