I’m not sure what I just read, but I’m not sorry I read it. It was definitely strange reading about someone living through other historical pandemics while living through one in our own time, but I think that made it even better. Cora lives all alone on the abandoned North Brother Island, within view of Rikers Island, in rotting buildings that were part of the now abandoned Riverside Hospital, which historically held people with a … Read More “The Vines by Shelley Nolden” »