Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel • 2014
Devastation Rating
dystopian survival loss literary fiction
Our Take
The flu takes almost everyone and Mandel writes the aftermath with such elegiac clarity that survival feels like loss. The travelling theatre reciting Shakespeare to remnants of civilization is not hopeful — it is the most human and therefore most heartbreaking image in the book. Survival is insufficient, and she means it.
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