New novel from Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven): Exit Party. “Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted.”
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I cannot wait! I am 328th in line for it at the library. : )
Yeah, I'm eleventy billionth at my library. :)
Station 11 was so, so great -- love her stuff. Can't wait. However. I'm slowly tiring of the doom and gloom. Seems like we could imagine better.
I'd like to think of her work pointing more toward the idea that no matter how bad things get there can still be beauty if we want there to be. The doom and gloom is the stark backdrop to make it stand out more.
Ooh instant buy!
I'm currently reading this. Excellent, as usual from Emily St. John Mandel.
Just had a chance to hear her in conversation with Daniel Handler at City Arts and Lectures in SF - a great show!
It’ll be broadcast and online in early October.
I’m going to hear her Tuesday in Seattle at Town Hall as part of the Seattle Arts and Lectures fall season. Will be streamed live via lectures.org, I believe.
This goes immediately to the top of my to-read pile (the real one, that I will actually read)!
Loved Station Eleven. Sea of Tranquility was a miss for me; just didn't hold me. But still looking forward to reading Exit Party.
This is going to be my first audiobook experience, next week on a flight to Japan (starting inAmsterdam, mind you). Lugging along a book on a flight just does not work for me.
I'm about 50 pages in. This has been the first time I feel fully enthralled reading the start of a novel in a long time. St. John-Mandel is really great at expanding and collapsing time, sometimes in the same paragraph. I've been a fan for years and have re-read Sea of Tranquility. In a lot of her writing, catastrophes happen and are, in some ways, background material to other human and technological mysteries. This novel feels like a continuation and expansion on these framing elements.
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