![]() The Glass Hotel isn't dystopian fiction rather it's "straight" literary fiction, gorgeous and haunting, about the porous boundaries between past and present, the rich and the poor, and the realms of the living and the dead. The critical consensus on Station Eleven was that it would be a near impossible novel to top mercifully, Mandel struck off in a totally different direction. The book was published in 2014, and won the Arthur C. 1 2 3 It takes place in the Great Lakes region before and after a fictional swine flu pandemic, known as the 'Georgia Flu, has devastated the world, killing most of the population. Mandel's last novel was the acclaimed, mega-bestseller, Station Eleven - a post-apocalyptic tale about a troupe of actors roaming around North America after a virus has wiped out most of the world's population. Station Eleven is a novel by the Canadian writer Emily St. For me, over the past 10 days or so, the novel that's performed that act of deliverance has been The Glass Hotel, by Emily St. Unless, that is, the recommendation is for a novel that's so absorbing, so fully realized that it draws you out of your own constricted situation and expands your sense of possibilities. ![]() So recommending a book can seem, well, out-of-touch. I've heard versions of that sentence on the phone, in person (at a distance), on email, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, on Zoom and Skype and all the other devices and online platforms we're using to stay connected with each other these days. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Glass Hotel Author Emily St.
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