Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


A beautiful story, beautifully written.

Two years later, in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, this book is still beautiful, and now, far more poignant, and its beauty has something akin to a sharpness.

Some might not like to read a novel set during and in the aftermath of a pandemic (far, far more deadly than Covid-19) and that is perfectly understandable. Station Eleven is a beautiful novel, beautifully written, and timely and poignant and haunting. As a San Francisco Chronicle says, "A superb novel ...[that] leaves us not fearful for the end of the world but appreciative of the grace of everyday existence."

And I love that there is a troupe of actors and performers, the Traveling Symphony, bringing drama and music to the survivors. Their motto is a quote from Star Trek: Voyager: "surviving is insufficient."

Highly Recommended.



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