A review by amydkreads
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

5.0

In Station Eleven three people become connected through one evening’s unsettling events in a Toronto theatre: a Hollywood actor playing King Lear, an EMT in the audience and a child actress watching from backstage. As the evening continues a pandemic spreads that ends up killing most of the population. The story picks up 15 years later and the now grown actress is part of Travelling Symphony, a troupe that performs Shakespeare for scattered communities of survivors. This vividly told survival story spans decades and moves back and forth in time to show how strange twists of fate connect the three main characters. People who consider themselves Hollywood devotees, comic book fans, cult junkies or disaster tourists would enjoy this inventive and exciting post-apocalyptic fiction.