Emily St. John Mandel
Sarah ShatzAppearing Courtesy of Mary Sue & Maurie Kern
Emily St. John Mandel's fifth novel, "The Glass Hotel," was released in spring 2020. Her previous novels include "Station Eleven," which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner award, and won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award. She lives in New York City with her family.
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Beneath the Façade
Powerhouse authors Emily St. John Mandell and Chuck Palahniuk discuss the grit and determination required to unmask the rich and famous in order to find the truth.
Marshall Foundation Stage (Seats 1000)
Sun, Mar 7, 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Fiction / Literature
Panelists:
Chuck Palahniuk,
Emily St. John Mandel
Moderator: Pamela Treadwell-Rubin
Books:
The Glass Hotel
Fiction / Literature
Vintage
February 2021
ISBN 9780525562948
Trade Paperback, 320 pages
$16.95, INSTORE
Buy nowFrom the award-winning author of "Station Eleven," an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events—a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby’s glass wall: Why don’t you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis is running an international Ponzi scheme, moving imaginary sums of money through clients’ accounts. When the financial empire collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan’s wife, walks away into the night. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call.
In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, the business of international shipping, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, "The Glass Hotel" is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives. More/less
Station Eleven
A Novel
Fiction / Literature
VINTAGE BOOKS
June 2015
ISBN 9780804172448
Paperback, 352 pages
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days following civilization’s collapse, "Station Eleven" tells the spellbinding story of a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking 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 Symphony, a small troupe moving over the gutted landscape, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. But when they arrive in the outpost of St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for anyone who dares to leave. Spanning decades, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the disaster brought everyone here, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty, telling a story about the relationships that sustain us. More/less
