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Listen to the story. “We’ve become addicted to low prices,” says author and supermarket historian Benjamin Lorr. But those great grocery store deals come at a huge human cost. Credit: Share There was a moment in early 2020 when life narrowed, and the grocery store became a lifeline in more ways than one. It was the source of breakfast, lunch and dinner, of course. But those lines emerging from sliding-glass doors and wrapping around the block? For a while, they were as close to a social life as we could get, one of our last connections to the outside world. And, when certain items were in short supply in the early days of the pandemic, we were forced to think a lot more about where our food comes from. ....
Chronicle Staff December 23, 2020 When describing 2020, most of the adjectives that come to mind are unprintable. But a bright side to this otherwise very bad year is a sense of shared experience. We’ve lived through it together. We’ve asked our writers to name a book they think best captures 2020. Perhaps it was through a scene that was a perfect reflection of our isolation, or a line that epitomized the political divide. It could be a moment that tapped into an emotion or mood that we all felt or a revelation about what it all might have meant. ‘What Happens at Night’ ....