UNPRECEDENTED TIMES is the Ultimate Gen Z Pandemic Novel

Every September, even though I’ve been out of school for more than a decade, I have stress dreams about not finishing the assigned summer reading. Campus time is hard to shake. Maybe that’s part of the enduring appeal of the campus novel: Few periods of life come with such a ready-made sense of narrative. Semesters become chapters, breaks become natural beginnings and endings. A few short years carry the promise that a person might emerge as someone else entirely.

Malavika Kannan’s Unprecedented Times begins inside ...