Station Eleven

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Call Number: BOCD Science Fiction, Adult BOCD / Fiction / Science Fiction / Mandel, Emily
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD Science Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD Science Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Fiction / Science Fiction / Mandel, Emily	4-week checkout	Due 05-12-2024

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Read by Kirsten Potter.
"An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains-this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet. Sometimes terrifying, sometimes tender, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it"-- Provided by publisher.

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Because survival is insufficient submitted by klaw197 on June 14, 2015, 12:35pm A virus has/will wipe out much of the world's population. This story is a look at the event and the aftermath from multiple perspectives, times and locations. It isn't your typical end of the world story, however. It looks at individuals and society more than at the event. It is connected, dramatic and ultimately beautiful.

Among the storylines is that of a troop of Shakespearean actors that cross Michigan in post-event bard-like fashion. It is always nice to feel like you are connected to a story through location.

Station Eleven submitted by SBNB on June 21, 2015, 9:45pm It's very detailed. It draws you into the moment. But it's also depressing.

Pure Michigan submitted by Judeyblu on June 29, 2015, 9:10pm I enjoy reading stories set in Michigan, and this one takes us through Traverse City and points south.
It does so as we follow a band of musician/actors who make a living as a new kind of traveling show in the aftermath of a plague.
This is one of my favorite types of books- it pulls together multiple storylines and I like seeing how everything comes together.
It's satisfying, and I suggest it for a great read.

A must read! submitted by mickplu on June 19, 2017, 8:45am One of the best post-apocalyptic novels that I've read. The majority of the world dies from a rapidly spreading virus in a matter of days. Gone are electricity, gas powered vehicles, and essentially modern life. To further complicate matters, a mysterious but deadly prophet is attacking villages that refuse to allow their young daughters to become his wives. The tale is interwoven between 5 main characters, who all had a once famous, now dead actor as their thread of connection.

Now one of my favorite book EVER submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on July 15, 2017, 8:36pm I'm sure I knew what this book was about when I added it to my To Read list, but I had since forgotten, and prefer to go into books blind (without reading the jackets). So the name and cover gave me the impression that this would be science fiction of some sort, and I was heartily surprised when it was no such thing. It's the story of a virus that wipes out nearly all of humanity, of life before and after it, of what is important when not much is left (the traveling artists have a sign that says "Survival is insufficient"), and how a few lives have crissed and crossed and intersected in ways that no one could foresee.

The author does an absolutely BRILLIANT job with moments of foreshadowing in the early part of the book, but even better, she sets up mysteries and questions and large and small unknowns that resolve in natural ways as the book progresses. I'm not sure I've ever seen a book do such a stunning job pulling threads together as it wound towards its close. This book was on my mind constantly throughout my time with it.

I listened to this book as an audio book. The narration was well done. It was my first audio book with a female narrator (only my 4th audio book ever), and I was intrigued to note that I found male narrators creating female voices to be more believable than this female narrator creating male voices. Falsetto can do that, though. I got used to it, and would certainly never rule out a female narrator for the difference.

wonderful! submitted by KOH on August 27, 2017, 10:55pm I loved this book. So unique, suspenseful, dark, hopeful.

Not a thriller submitted by hroseborough13 on June 10, 2022, 10:38am It's very fun that this book is set in Michigan, with lots of familiar cities being named. I'm used to apocalypse media being more in the thriller/horror genre, and this definitely isn't, but that doesn't take away from it at all. I though it was paced very well, moving between different characters and times smoothly. It was very cool how all the different threads tied together in the end.