"While reflecting on a single moment in our collective recent history, these writers have offered up their personal histories, too-as well as existential questions, cultural observations, and future aspirations to which we can all relate. In these pages you'll find individual tornado stories and quarantine memories, yes, but also a wholly beautiful and expansive reading experience. Reckoning is not just a timeless capsule. It's timeless." -Mary Laura Philpott, Author of I Miss You When I Blink
Supported by a Tennessee Arts Commission grant, this collection of essays, poems, and a smidge of fiction - all by Tennessee authors - sums up the shit show that was 2020. Some stories were truly good, some were not. It will come as no surprise that Margaret Renkl’s essay was the best. I found much of the poetry cheesy/annoying/pretentious (poetry is not generally my thing). I commend the idea, but overall, this anthology was mediocre.