![]() ![]() “an alternate reality where there was no Iraq War, for example, or where the terrifying new swine flu in the Republic of Georgia hadn’t been swiftly contained an alternate world where the Georgia flu blossomed into an unstoppable pandemic and civilization collapsed.” There are a few overlaps between characters and events from this novel with ones from Station Eleven, as when Vincent imagines The characters at the center of the novel are Paul and his younger step-sister Vincent, and as in her previous novel, the stories of the separate characters begin at what seem to be opposite ends of a pattern and are gradually woven closer together until a recognizable picture is revealed. John Mandel is a wonderful writer, and she brings her characters together in a way that includes everybody in the world around them, even the readers. The people in this novel look at glass and see mirrors. The title must refer to the idea of glass houses, but the impulse of the novel is less kind than her previous one, despite that title reference. Entitled The Glass Hotel, it’s loosely organized around the story of what happens to a group of people who meet once in a hotel in British Columbia. ![]() John Mandel, and found it less brilliant but even more disturbing. I’ve read the new novel by the author of the heartbreakingly brilliant Station Eleven, Emily St. ![]()
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