A beautiful and now timely historical novel

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As Bright As Heaven by Susan Meissner
I'm going back two years to review one of my favorite books As Bright As Heaven, because I've been thinking about it a lot lately.
Centered around the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, this story of life one hundred years ago echos so much of our reality now. "" My neighbor said there are no more beds at any of our hospitals," says a girl named Louise, turning toward us from her seat. "He stood in line with his sick wife and waited for two hours before the nurses told him he'd have to carry her back home. And they didn't give her any medicine." " That's because there is no medicine," Wendell says. "How can there be no medicine at a hospital?" Chester says. "It's a hospital!" "There is no medicine for this," Wendell says." This book is beautifully written, and I highly recommend it, but it's best to have some tissues on hand.
5 stars from me.