For the longest time, I had no idea what to say about Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel. Not only does it defy description, but the description it does get is pretty accurate …and yet, so wrong. Here, for example, from the last paragraph of the Amazon description: “Spanning decades, moving back and forth in […]
Review | Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
2015-03-09 · by ·
I was drawn to Station Eleven because I saw it on a several 2014 best books lists: It was nominated for the both the National Book Award and the Goodreads Choice for Best Fiction. Station Eleven is dystopian fiction. The story starts pre-end of civilization as we know it due to a pandemic, but flashes back and forth […]
