An infected bolt of cloth spreads plague throughout a remote village in Geraldine Brooks’ debut novel, YEAR OF WONDERS. 🦠🥀 #YearOfWonders is a book about things that fester. Illness, yes, but also lust, paranoia, curiosity, and agnosticism. It is 300 beautiful, brutal, anxiety-filled pages of a community slowly losing their faith in god and dying. All of which is captured by the narration of Anna Frith, a woman who in the wake of her own loss becomes historian and healer for those around her. . . I’m so enamored by this dire, little book. Brooks’ writing is tactile and poetic—that in addition to thoughtful metaphors and vivid images, her consonants and vowels feel meticulously selected to create texture. I loved watching Anna track the course from passive to active, fighting off the desolation and malaise threatening to suffocate her. She is a character not quickly forgotten. This novel rocketed to the to top of my favorites I’ve read this year. . . Out from @penguinbooks . . #TeamPRH