Famed author Jodi Picoult novelizes the pandemic in new book 'Wish You Were Here'
Picoult's pandemic-inspired story focusing on a character stranded in the Galápagos Islands highlights how events can change us — and offer perspective.
by Scott Simon
Nov 30, 2021
2 minutes
Author Jodi Picoult says couldn't wrap her head around how she might tell the story of the pandemic — to both memorialize it and make sense of it.
That was until she heard the true story of a Japanese tourist that ended up stranded in Machu Picchu due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Instead of going back home to Japan, the tourist, named Jesse Katayama, wound up staying in the
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