Discordant Pandemic Narratives in the U.S.,edited by Shing-Ling S. Chen and Nicole Allaire, is a well-organized collection of nine tightly written and informative essays by over a dozen scholars, examining various responses to a medical crisis. This collection seamlessly blends contemporary political discourse with an emphasis on narrative research. It not only consists of precise analysis of complex forms of storytelling by people in positions of power, but provides insightful, definitive, and eye-opening accounts of how crisis communication styles become constructed, maintained, and mediated across space and time.