The Glass Hotel

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Large Print Fiction / Mandel, Emily	4-week checkout	Due 05-15-2024

"Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half-brother, Paul, scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: "Why don't you swallow broken glass." Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. Weaving together the lives of these characters, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of northern Vancouver Island, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts." -- Provided by publisher.

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Intriguing story submitted by mandevil on March 1, 2022, 1:56pm I like this writer! I’ve also read Station 11

Felt like something was missing submitted by TeacherN on June 15, 2022, 5:06pm I loved Station Eleven, the novel and the TV show, but I was a bit disappointed with The Glass Hotel. I mostly enjoyed it, but it felt like something was missing. I've heard that the author's next novel, Sea of Tranquility, brings back some of the characters from the Glass Hotel. I haven't read it yet, but I'm curious to see if it will add that bit that was missing for me in this novel.