STATION ELEVEN by Emily St. John Mandel

AGENDA:

1. Short introductions (name, pronouns, one thing you liked about the book)
2. Discussion of STATION ELEVEN
3. Deciding on May title*

STATION ELEVEN was a National Book Award finalist in 2014 and won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2015. It was also nominated for the Locus Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Women's Prize for Fiction, and the Andrew Carnegie Medal in 2015.

"Set in the days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.

One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time—from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains—this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding 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."

STATION ELEVEN is available for purchase through WritersBlockBookstore.com (USPS ship-to-home, curbside pickup, audiobook download through Libro.fm, or ebook download through My Must Reads). You can also borrow it from the Orange County Public Library System as a standard or large print physical book via grab-and-go or home delivery, or as an ebook or audiobook download through the Overdrive and Libby apps. If you have any questions about how to obtain the book through these means, please comment on the event or DM host Shelby Bouck.

*Feel free to suggest a book from any genre for May! It should be published for an adult or young adult audience and be one continuous work, i.e. not a collection of short stories, essays, or poems.