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Comment on The first major novel on Long COVID falls for harmful tropes. It doesn’t have to be this way. by Patricia Lockwood explores the depths of Long COVID in the new novel “Will There Ever Be Another You” - The Sick Times
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In There’s Nothing Wrong with Her, Weinberg draws on her own experience of Long COVID to depict both the physical strain of the illness and its psychological effects, including aphasia and cognitive dysfunction, or “brain fog.” Through a deliberately repetitive structure, Greenwell explores the feeling of having chronic illness: like so many other sick and disabled people, the poet-narrator fears for his health and is frustrated at his lack of control over his body and his circumstances. Though most chronically ill people do not spend their lives trapped in a single room, whether at a hospital or at home, the claustrophobia of Greenwell’s novel captures the feeling of limitation that comes with chronic illness.