![]() As Donoghue writes in an author’s note, “‘The Pull of the Stars’ is fiction pinned together with facts.” The year is 1918, and the illness, of course, is influenza. ![]() The parallels to 2020 are uncanny, but this is history, not prescience. Meanwhile, the government touts false cures and contends that the epidemic is under control. ![]() The sounds of wracking coughs cut through the air as medical supplies run short, and face masks become commonplace in the streets. In Emma Donoghue’s arresting new page-turner of a novel, “The Pull of the Stars,” an urban hospital is overwhelmed by victims of a cruel new disease. ![]()
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