Hindsight: Untold Stories from 2020

by Steve Fowler

In an unprecedented year, the world faced a threat that upended life as we knew it. Heroes emerged. Leaders fumbled. Cultures clashed. These are not those stories. These are the stories of ordinary people living in extraordinary times: nurses, teachers, parents, children. Stories that show what it was like to work on the COVID response unit; to watch your favorite hiking trail be consumed by flames; to walk in the rubble of a catastrophic explosion. Hindsight is a collection of untold stories written by everyday people — a time capsule of 2020 that bears witness to tragedy and the heart of humanity.

195 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 1, 2023

About the author

Steve Fowler is a high school English teacher and former magazine editor, whose publications include Hudson Valley Magazine, The Valley Table, Northern Colorado Writers Anthology, and Social Media: The Academic Library Perspective. He lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York State with his wife.

Reviews

[Antonio Valenzuela · Rating 5 out of 5]

A candid, intimate, and relatable collection of personal tales. Hindsight takes us back to the days of the COVID 19 pandemic (now but a distant memory) and reminds us that despite the uncertainty, suffering, and most of all, the isolation that it wrought, it also bonded us with the sense of a common human experience.

[bowiesbooks · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hindsight is a collection of essays from around the world written during the coronavirus pandemic. From ages 16 to 80, from frontline nurses to those who were furloughed and from young men to older women, this books had an essay from everyone.

It never shies away from the hardships that the pandemic brought, the deep effects that it had on everyone’s lives and how people coped with the day to day. It not only encapsulates the difficulty of the virus, but also everything else that was happening in the world - from the US election to the Black Lives Matter protests, this collection of essays will go down in history when people turn to look at the influence of 2020 on society.