And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Narratives of Courage and Resilience

Abstract

And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again is a breath of fresh air in this world, contaminated by the coronavirus. At a time when stepping outside the house is a crime, travelling is a far cry. With this book, Ilan Stavans empowers the readers with wings and takes them on a refreshing voyage by enabling them to travel to more than thirty foreign lands to peep into the lives of ordinary men and women, and witness their diverse reactions, struggles and coping mechanisms to the COVID-19 pandemic. On this journey the readers are compelled to delve into some of the deeper questions of life and are exposed to a spectrum of realities which co-exist in a world facing a common challenge. All these ideas are packed into assorted forms of literary dispatches from letters, stories, personal essays, poems, opinion pieces, artwork to graphic memoirs, thereby targeting a general readership and appealing to people with differing tastes.