Station Eleven

I just finished Station Eleven- a decidedly un-Christmasy read written in 2014- that is Get This- about a Pandemic.
This pandemic was far worse than the one we experienced in 2020.

This one felled society.
Imagine so many people dead so fast that in a few weeks time there is no more electricity.
No more gasoline.
No more air travel, space travel.
All of it. GONE.

This book is brilliantly crafted- the Post Technology World that Emily St. John Mandel has drawn has been so clearly and accurately illustrated.

Is this what our world would be like if 99% of the population died?

And yet for all this doomsday plague horror- somehow, some way, this story is beautiful and soothing.

I think perhaps because the reader learns that in the face of such inestimable loss, what truly matters is our collective humanity. The beauty is in how those left after the Georgia Flu has run through the planet, decide how they will move forward, how they will connect, how they will live.


I felt inexorably pulled into this post-pandemic hellscape -into a future that somehow elicited no fear just profound appreciation for our collective human experience.
Highly Recommended Read.