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A black cat looks out a window over a city view. A blue bowl sits to the left of the cat and a purple curtain blows to its right. "These Days Are Numbered" is written in in light blue text in the center of the cover above the cat.

These Days are Numbered

These Days are Numbered: Diary of a High-Rise Lockdown is the diary of a woman longing for community in a crowded downtown during pandemic times, when casual intimacies are forbidden.

A black cat looks out a window over a city view. A blue bowl sits to the left of the cat and a purple curtain blows to its right. "These Days Are Numbered" is written in in light blue text in the center of the cover above the cat.
Cover of “These Days are Numbered” by Rebecca Rosenblum, 2024 Heritage Toronto Book Award nominee. Cover designed by Laura Boyle. Cover image by Anastasia Yakovleva.

Cover of “These Days are Numbered” by Rebecca Rosenblum, 2024 Heritage Toronto Book Award nominee. Cover designed by Laura Boyle. Cover by Anastasia Yakovleva.

Author: Rebecca Rosenblum

Publisher: Dundurn Press Ltd.

Novelist Rebecca Rosenblum lives in St. James Town — the most densely populated square kilometre in all of Canada. When the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdowns arrive, she’s cut off from colleagues, friends, and family, and not allowed to go near neighbours. As the world constricts, Rebecca keeps a weird and worried diary online — a love letter both to the outside world that she misses so desperately, and the little world inside St. James Town that she can see from home.

As Rebecca watches and wonders from inside her box in the sky, her diary entries mix an account of a tough time in a tough place with joyful goofiness and moments of unexpected compassion.

About the Author:

Rebecca Rosenblum is the author of the short-story collections Once and The Big Dream, and the novel So Much Love. Her work has been shortlisted for the Trillium Award and the Amazon First Novel Award. Rebecca lives with her husband, author Mark Sampson, and their two cats in Toronto.

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