Station Eleven

This Anniversary Edition of Station Eleven,a finalist for the National Book Award and named a Best Book of the Twenty-First Century by the New York Timescelebrates ten years of this now iconic novel with a new color illustration and a guide to ΓÇ£The MandelverseΓÇ¥ An audaciousdarkly glittering novel set in the eerie days following civilization’s collapseStation Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes regionrisking everything for art and humanity. It is fifteen years after a flu pandemic wiped out most of the world’s population. Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphonya small troupe moving over the gutted landscapeperforming Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. But when they arrive in the outpost of St. Deborah by the Waterthey encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for anyone who dares to leave. Spanning decadesmoving back and forth in timeand vividly depicting life before and after the disaster brought everyone herethis suspensefulelegiac novel is rife with beautytelling a story about the relationships that sustain us.