Our best summer reads of 2020

You’re now about to discover if short-term pandemic brain is an actual condition or just a meme.

If you made it to the end of this sentence — congratulations, you may officially be in recovery. (Not that our state-by-state outbreaks are in recovery — but let’s not talk about that right now: let’s have a week off.)

Instead, I’m delighted to wrap up for you some of our best summer reads this year — some longer, some shorter depending on your end-of-year attention levels — and they traverse all the good, bad and COVID-ugly terrain of the road trip from hell that has been 2020.

But there are also tales of love, lots of love — the only way we got through this.

If your long-form attention is coming back can I suggest Brit Bennett’s The…