Amid COVID-19 Learn History Through Fiction: Spanish Flu Pandemic Eroded Social Fabric

Fear resulting from a pandemic can disrupt social conventions. During the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak, people were shot for not wearing masks and the bereaved stole coffins to bury their dead. Read more about the deadly Spanish flu pandemic a century ago in On the Shore (1917-1925), a tale of conflict between generations in a Lower East Side immigrant family (see NOVELS).

Spanish flu pandemic a century ago
Generations of immigrant family in conflict

Author: annsepstein@att.net

Ann S. Epstein is an award-winning writer of novels, short stories, memoirs, and essays.

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