Jacobs cites that Peter Handke was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience. She also mentions that Handke's novel Short Letter, Long Farewell is an interesting postscript to her previous read, Flights by Olga Tokarczuk. Both works of fiction deal with travel, an interesting subject matter in light of the current pandemic that brings new social norms of social distancing, sheltering in place and a run on toilet paper. And just as this situation has produced wildly different points of view about how to handle all of this, these two authors also demonstrate wildly different points of view on travel given to the reader in two unique styles of writing.