![]() ![]() Published by Knopf in 2014, it tells the story of a small band of actors and musicians 20 years after a flu pandemic has wiped out 99% of the Earth's population. The post-apocalyptic novel has grown popular enough to warrant its own genre, and one could argue that Station Eleven fits well within that category. "I wanted to write a love letter to the world we find ourselves in." - Emily St. "Survival is insufficient." -from Station Eleven ![]() "I kept putting the book down, looking around me, and thinking, 'Everything is a miracle'" (National Public Radio). "It's hard to imagine a novel more perfectly suited, in both form and content, to this literary moment" ( The New Yorker). "Think of Cormac McCarthy seesawing with Joan Didion. "Possibly the most captivating and thought-provoking post-apocalyptic novel you will ever read" ( The Independent London). A woman moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians until they encounter a violent prophet who threatens the tiny band's existence. "Equal parts page-turner and poem" ( Entertainment Weekly), the novel is set 20 years after a devastating flu pandemic destroys civilization as we know it. Clarke Award, was a finalist for the National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award, was an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and was named one of the best books of the year by more than a dozen publications. John Mandel's fourth novel, won the Arthur C. ![]() This title is no longer available for programming after the 2021-2022 grant year. ![]()
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