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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
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This novel weaves together the times before and after a great flu that wipes out most of humanity. The book succeeds in creating a feeling of wistfulness for civilization lost, without veering entirely into melancholy. Evocative and ultimately satisfying.

Station Eleven reminds us how fortunate the first world is today. When manufacturing for a can of Coke stretches across continents and the Internet and power grids connect everyone together with invisible tendrils, what happens when those links are severed?

If you started with The Road by Cormac McCarthy and removed almost all of the brutality and bleakness, and added a bit of To The Lighthouse, then Station Eleven would be pretty close. If I could, I'd give it 4.5 stars.
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January 18, 2015 – Shelved
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