Station Eleven

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
333 Pages



The book opens as Arthur,  the main actor in a King Lear production collapses and dies on stage of a heart attack.  While this is happening the beginnings of a major epidemic are stirring in the city of Toronto, an epidemic that will kill the majority of the population. 

Yet this is not a disaster story in a dyfunctional future.  In fact the epidemic is only a minor part of the story. Instead the book is structured to bridge the past and the future by telling the stories of people who interacted with Arthur before he died and who continue to be affected by having known him.