{"title":"Laura Marris","description":"\u003cp\u003eLaura Marris explores the intersections of history, culture, and science with a keen eye for detail and narrative depth. Her works delve into significant events and phenomena, offering readers a thoughtful perspective on how the past shapes our present world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a focus on themes such as health crises and societal change, Marris invites reflection through meticulously researched storytelling. 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As people were surrounded by terror and uncertainty, often separated from loved ones or unable to travel, many sought answers within the pages of Camus’s tale about an Algerian city gripped by an epidemic in 1947. People began to read it as a story about their own lives—a book to shed light on a global health crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn thirteen linked chapters told in alternating voices, Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris hold the past and present of \u003cem\u003eThe Plague\u003c\/em\u003e in conversation, discovering how the novel has reached people in our current moment. Kaplan’s chapters explore the book’s tangled and vivid history, while Marris’s are drawn to the ecology of landscape and language. Through these pages, they find that their sense of Camus evolves under the force of a new reality, alongside the pressures of illness, recovery, concern, and care in their own lives. Kaplan herself is struggling with a case of covid as the book opens; as it closes, Marris receives her first vaccine shot. In between, they find aspects of Camus’s novel that once seemed merely literary spoke directly to their own fear and grief. 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