STOLEN: LOVE AND LOSS IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

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STOLEN: LOVE AND LOSS IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 is a raw and gripping diary account of the battle Jaeger’s dad endured with COVID-19 in New York City. The narrative brings you into the heart of her family as they come to terms with his death and learn to cope with his absence. In flashbacks throughout the narrative, vignettes illustrate her dad in happier times–a doting father, an adoring grandfather, a man who always put family first.

STOLEN: LOVE AND LOSS IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 is a raw and gripping diary account of the battle Jaeger’s dad endured with COVID-19 in New York City. The narrative brings you into the heart of her family as they come to terms with his death and learn to cope with his absence. In flashbacks throughout the narrative, vignettes illustrate her dad in happier times–a doting father, an adoring grandfather, a man who always put family first.

Praise for STOLEN: LOVE AND LOSS IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

Stolen: Love and Loss in the Time of COVID-19 by Elizabeth Jaeger is an exceptionally intimate, unflinching memoirs I’ve read in recent years. In a world oversaturated with distant, clinical accounts of the pandemic, Elizabeth Jaeger offers something heartbreakingly rare: a deeply personal narrative of loss that is both sharply detailed and universally resonant.

—The Reading Bud

[Jaeger] does an exemplary job of weaving together a cohesive narrative from a jumble of pivotal emotions, experiences, influences, and memories during a time of extreme uncertainty. She includes vivid details of her once private emotional truths. While most people will have some degree of familiarity with her story, future generations will learn of the utter devastation that COVID-19 left in its wake. Stolen is a heartbreaking work of one woman’s reality, and one family’s loss, that serves as an example of what many people lived. With an unflinching ability to put her heart on the page, Stolen, is a work that is needed to document not only the atrocities that ravaged us six years ago, but also the way we worked through the devastation and how we continue to do so.

—Florence Osmund

Stolen is a heartbreaking work of one woman’s reality, and one family’s loss, that serves as an example of what many people lived. With an unflinching ability to put her heart on the page, Stolen, is a work that is needed to document not only the atrocities that ravaged us six years ago, but also the way we worked through the devastation and how we continue to do so.

—Laura Gaddis

March 2020, New York City. A vivid day-for-day diary that gives a rare insight into the lives of one woman, her son, her mother, and her wife as they deal with the complexities of the new mystery disease, Covid. With the turning of each page, we witness their sorrow, their anger and helplessness as they must watch as her father ultimately dies an untimely and lonely death. Emotional and gripping, this is a beautifully written testament to how a global disaster can affect us on a most personal level. It is a story no one should forget. 

—Kerstin Lieff, author of Letters from Berlin and The Wolf Children of the Eastern Front

 

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About ELIZABETH JAEGER

Elizabeth Jaeger’s memoir, Stolen: Love and Loss in the Time of COVID-19, is forthcoming with Unsolicited Press. Her essays, short stories, book reviews and poetry have been published in various print and online journals, including Margate Bookie, Caustic Frolic, The Blue Nib, Capsule Stories, Watchung Review, Ovunque Siamo, and Italian Americana.  Newtown Literary published “The Treehouse,” which is a chapter from her novel in progress. Jaeger earned an MFA in creative writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University and an MA in history from William Paterson University. Currently, she teaches history at Perth Amboy High School. She lives in New Jersey with her wife, son, and three cats, though she is always happiest when traveling and exploring new places. You can find her at https://www.elizabethjaegerauthor.com/ and on TikTok @PapaJaegerTheOwl

 

  • Genre: Nonfiction (Memoir)

    ISBN: 978-1-963115-49-9

    Publication Date: September 16, 2025

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