Heidi Stevens: For one glorious day, author Rebecca Makkai became our Twitter mom
On Sunday afternoon, the first day of March, with coronavirus fears swirling and presidential politics raging and stock markets reeling from the previous week, author Rebecca Makkai hopped on Twitter and did something remarkable.
She made it kind.
"Hey," the Chicago-based novelist ("The Great Believers," "The Hundred-Year House") wrote, "if anyone needs a mom right now to tell them it'll all be okay: It'll all be okay."
Some of her 19,700 followers chimed in with gratitude: "I just lost mine two
