Station Eleven

Station Eleven is about a catastrophic flu epidemic that kills so many people that modern civilization comes to a stop. The epidemic and its aftermath are shown through the experiences of a group of people all connected to a famous actor, Arthur Leander, who dies of a heart attack onstage while playing King Lear the night the epidemic comes to Toronto.

I loved this book. For one thing, it is timely. For many reasons, the end of the world has been on my mind a lot lately. But I think what I really loved about it was that the story of the epidemic's aftermath is the story of pieces of the old culture surviving and perhaps being made new.

Station Eleven is going to stay with me for a while.