Thanks for the recommendation. Just reading her blog and her bio at GoodReads, I love her!

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/133576.Sharon_Pywell/blog

Like other teachers, she finds:

.... students increasingly resist reading anything longer than a text. Of course this isn’t all students. But something’s changing. There’s a connection between this pattern and the current state of the Union: reading fiction develops the capacity to see contradiction, decode the implied, value the truth. Not reading does the opposite.
I have been confused by the increasing trouble my students have explaining what is truly going on in human interactions they find in fiction. How does this character feel? I may ask. “Good,” they’ll say. They ignore the fact that the character is lying and the preceding hundred pages made that clear. Lies, I have told my students, are the engines that drive the narrative arc upward to its crisis point ....