These Days Are Numbered

Diary of a High-Rise Lockdown

By: Rebecca Rosenblum

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Audio CD | 11 July 2023

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328 Pages

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A diary of a woman longing for community in a crowded urban area during the pandemic times, when casual intimacies are forbidden.

Rebecca Rosenblum lives in St James Town, Toronto -- the most densely populated square kilometre in all of Canada. When the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdowns arrive, she's cut off from colleagues, friends, family, and not allowed to go near neighbours. As the world constricts, Rebecca keeps a very weird and worried diary online -- that is really a love letter both to the outside world that she missed so desperately, and the little world inside St James Town that she can see from home.

We all lived our own pandemics, and Rebecca's was one of watching and considering the city she loves -- from the milestones like crying when the parks closed to the little moments with strangers on the street and with loved ones across the six-foot divide, Rebecca wondered, worried, and wrote it down.

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An intimate portrait in which moments of pandemic grief and anxiety are always matched by humour, tenderness, and curiosity. * Saleema Nawaz, author of Songs for the End of the World *
It's shocking how much the worst days of the Covid-19 pandemic feel like ancient history. In these near-daily dispatches from the lockdown era, Rosenblum attempts to pin herself to the earth during a moment of global unmooring. In doing so, she provides an honest and very human accounting of a time that is already being erased from our collective memories. * Nathan Whitlock, author of Lump *
In early March 2020, as the first wave of the pandemic closed in and big city life shifted in estranging ways, Rebecca Rosenblum began to chronicle the changes in herself and others in journal entries on social media. As we acquired new vocabulary, adjusted to new routines, and learned to cope with losses of all kinds, she probed personal and collective anxieties and conundrums. During walks through a deserted city, she conceived of herself as an eye, but she was also the beating heart of a community trying to finds its way during a collective trauma. In compilation, this diary is a record of where we've been and who we've been under unknowable and stressful circumstances. To read These Days Are Numbered is to witness a deeply curious, compassionate, and humane mind at work. * Christine Fischer Guy, author of The Umbrella Mender *

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