A review by khairun_atika
In the Year of the Virus by Felix Cheong

3.0

This was a succinct and heartwrenching account of the COVID19 situation in Singapore. As we are still living in a pandemic now, the graphic novel recalls the loneliness and uncertainty during the initial circuit breaker period in Singapore. Of the novelty of the virus, its quick spread, and how it impacts the lives of many. Some fall sick, some experience loss, and some are just plain devastated by how things change. Their livelihoods change, their relationships change, and they are catapulted into a new norm. We crave for human contact, we crave for social interaction, and we crave for the outside world. Yet the poetry in this comic beautifully acknowledges the efforts and services of the frontline workers, and how much they have sacrificed for the citizens. A light, quick read with wonderful depth of a heavy situation.