Station Eleven

Overview

A National Book Award Finalist

A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist

In her fourth novel, bestselling author Emily St. John Mandel tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the fleeting nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it.

Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night famous Hollywood actor Arthur Leander had a fatal heart attack on stage while performing King Lear. That was the night when the world as we know it began to dissolve. A devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, bringing modern civilization to an end.

Twenty years later, Kirsten joins a small troupe of actors and musicians and travels between the surviving settlements of the broken world. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony and have dedicated themselves to keeping arts and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet that threatens their existence.

As the story continues, moving back and forth in time, the fates of five people are inexorably connected: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor’s first wife, his oldest friend, and the young actress Kirsten Raymonde.

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This title has been selected for First Year Experience reading by the following schools: University of Tennessee—Knoxville, Western Michigan University, University of Oregon, Purdue University, Southern Methodist University, Centre College, West Virginia University.

ISBN: 9780804172448 Paperback Author: Emily St. John Mandel