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One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production. Jeevan Chaudhary, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur's chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded and Jeevan and his brother barricade themselves inside as life disintegrates outside. This novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet.
Emily St. John Mandel was born in British Columbia, Canada. She is the author of three previous novels-- Last Night in Montreal, The Singer's Gun, and The Lola Quartet--all of which were Indie Next picks. She is a staff writer for The Millions, and her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Mystery Stories 2013 and Venice Noir. She lives in New York City with her husband.
" Station Eleven is so compelling, so fearlessly imagined, that I wouldn't have put it down for anything." -- Ann Patchett
"A superb novel . . . [that] leaves us not fearful for the end of the word but appreciative of the grace of everyday existence." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"Deeply melancholy, but beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac . . . A book that I will long remember, and return to." -- George R. R. Martin
"It's hard to imagine a novel more perfectly suited, in both form and content, to this literary moment. Station Eleven, if we were to talk about it in our usual way, would seem like a book that combines high culture and low culture--"literary fiction" and "genre fiction." But those categories aren't really adequate to describe the book" -- The New Yorker
