Station Eleven : A Novel (National Book Award Finalist) (Paperback)

from EBT1002

"Hell is the absence of the people you long for." After a pandemic of "Georgia Flu" expeditiously wipes out more than 99% of the human population on Earth, those who survive go through, collectively and individually, somewhat predictable stages of grief and transition and turn to somewhat predict...

from porch_reader

I've seen this on several of your "best of 2014" lists, and I was not disappointed. Station Eleven pulled me in from the beginning. It has the typical plot devices of a good post-apocalyptic book, leaving readers to wonder how the drastic changes to the world - in this case, a severe flu outbreak...

from Meredy

Six-word review: Absorbing fantasy depicts plausible postapocalyptic vision. Extended review: Calling Station Eleven a fantasy doesn't mean that it has any magical or fantastic elements. It's a fantasy in the sense that an alternate history is a fantasy, a world invented by the author. The world ...

from ajhackwith

An actor dies on a stage in Toronto, at the beginning of the end of the world. This book was beautiful and savage and hard and hopeful in all the wonderful ways that a good post apocalyptic book should be. I really just loved the way Mandel effortlessly wove chapters from various points on the t...

from beentsy

This was beautiful. People and their stories moving back and forth in time and through each others lives. From the end of the story looking back it's like a great delicate spider web.