The title of the novel refers to the way rich people, or other people with more means/options than their neighbors, fled big cities when the pandemic started. Darla, the one truly rich person in the novel, has access to a cottage in the Catskills and finally convinces her husband to go there. Why was Theo was so resistant to leave? Truly, what was going…
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