STATION ELEVEN: Madeline St. John Mandel

STATION ELEVEN

by Madeline St. John Mandel

When I was young I checked every wardrobe for a door to Narnia, and scanned the sky for owls, desperate for my invite to Hogwarts. Now, I dream of running away with The Travelling Symphony, a theatrical troupe who roam around what's left of the USA, performing for the survivors of a pandemic that wiped out 99% of the population. Most books about the collapse of civilisation focus on the struggle to survive. Station Eleven takes a line from Star Trek as its central tenet, ‘Survival is insufficient’ and explores what it is that makes surviving worthwhile.

-Recommended by Elsie

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