Image 1 of 1
-
When fear takes over, Harrisons rally around to face the challenge……
Want to know what happened………
Read On
Book Description – When the World Held Its Breath
The book is a winner of the Literary Titan Book Award and has been featured in New York Weekly. It has more than 25 5-star reviews on Amazon.
Harrisons lived the American dream. As COVID-19 transforms from distant news to deadly reality, the Harrisons go into lockdown, and the family of four is forced to live together, stripped of their escape routes to work, school, and social life. Tensions simmer as David's work pressure intensifies, and Laura tries to balance her work with the family's well-being. The teens chafe against restrictions, and small irritations magnify into explosive conflicts. The question no longer remains: would they survive the virus? Rather, the question becomes whether they would survive each other!
Then, Laura catches the virus, and within days, she's on a ventilator, her family separated by a glass partition, helpless to reach her.
David faces immense pressure and impossible choices: saving his company versus his wife in the hospital, maintaining his ethics versus corruption that offers easy solutions, and being a father, taking care of the children, when he's barely holding himself together. Ultimately, David breaks down. The children see their invincible father on his knees, and grow up overnight as their world collapses around them.
When Laura finally wakes up, her memory is gone, scattered like puzzle pieces, and she must painstakingly reassemble it. In this crisis, it's the family bond that keeps them going.
"When The World Held Its Breath" is an intimate portrait of one family's journey through COVID-19, America's darkest modern crisis. This story explores love tested by unimaginable circumstances. It shows ordinary people learning that resilience isn't about being unbreakable; it is about helping each other in times of crisis.
Rich with authentic detail and emotional depth, this novel captures not just what we endured during the pandemic, but who we became because of it. For anyone who lived through those terrifying months, this is the story of how we found our way home—and how America, despite initial missteps that cost more than a million lives, ultimately rose to the occasion and helped the world control the pandemic.