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Pandemonium Logs: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 20202022

English

By (author): Ben Miller

In 2015, Ben Miller and the poet Anne Pierson Wiese moved from New York City to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to explore their midwestern roots and to focus on their writing careers. Working a day job in a hospital, Miller had a front-row seat to the COVID-19 pandemic as it moved from the coasts to the urban Midwest. Pandemonium Logs casts an unflinching eye on the state of the worker in the US health-care system during a global pandemic, giving voice to the doctors, nurses, support staff, patients, and families caught in the complex swirl of daily dilemmas and crucial choices.

In unsparing yet sympathetic prose, Ben Miller creates an intimate portrait of the impact of COVID on the diverse people of South Dakota. Through a wide range of charactersfrom understandably confused patients to quietly competent nurseshe explores the human complexities of the crisis: a doctor based in Mumbai who treats critically ill patients in the Dakotas via a tenuous hodgepodge of telehealth apparatus, a Hydra of six workplace trainers who together cannot train one employee to do one job, a vice president of corporate hospitality who lives to rip down safety signs as fast as nurses post them, a ninety-year-old hospital volunteer who pushes wheelchairs containing patients half his age.

In Pandemonium Logs, Miller provides precise and moving observations of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 286g
  • Dimensions: 132 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Oct 2024
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781978835283

About Ben Miller

BEN MILLER is the author of River Bend Chronicle: The Junkification of a Boyhood Idyll amid the Curious Glory of Urban Iowa. He has published in Raritan Salmagundi One Story The Georgia Review The Southern Review New England Review and other journals. His essays have been reprinted or noted nine times in Best American Essays. His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Radcliffe Institute as well as grants from the South Dakota Arts Council and the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. He has been a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction.

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