Lawrence Wright¿s ¿The Plague Year¿ is his testament to the year of Covid in America. The book chronicles what happened when, as he says, ¿the coronavirus slipped in on cat¿s paws.¿ And it disentangles the country¿s failure to properly respond to the pandemic ¿ how was it possible that more than half a million people perished in the country with the most powerful economy in the world?