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Station Eleven
'Survival is insufficient.' Some days you need a reason, not just a pulse. 🎻
Who it's for
The novel moves between the last ordinary days before a flu pandemic and a world twenty years later, so readers hold grief for what is lost alongside evidence that life, and beauty, continue.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Emily St. John Mandel's 2014 novel opens in Toronto, where actor Arthur Leander dies on stage during a production of King Lear on the night the Georgia Flu begins to spread and collapse civilization. Twenty years later, Kirsten, a child actor in that production, travels the Great Lakes region with the Traveling Symphony, a troupe performing Shakespeare and music for scattered settlements.
Where to find it
In print; libraries (Libby/Hoopla); audiobook available. HBO Max limited series (2021).
Before you start
Heads up: A suicide and pandemic mass death.
Age: Ages 16+
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face:1 Corinthians 13:12, 1 Corinthians 13:12
