Dan Milway reviewed Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days following civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven …
A post-apocalyptic novel about how sad we are now
4 stars
Early on in the book St. John Mandel lists all the things we would lose if civilization collapses. Yet even as she narrates through her protagonists struggles among the ruins, she shows us, though flashbacks, how much sadder we are now—how alienated we are from each other.
Best summed up in a quote from the book: "Hell is the absence of the people you long for."