Station Eleven

An apocalypse story that doesn't focus on the apocalypse itself but rather checks in with a group of loosely intertwined characters before and ~20 years after a virus kills about 99.9% of the population. We get interesting glimpses into how people would deal with a world in which everything they'd known had collapsed, all infrastructure, all amenities. There's violence and there are cults, yet there is also hope. Personified in a rag-tag team of musicians and actors who bonded together to form a travelling theatre group, performing under the slogan of “Survival Is Insufficient”.

I quite enjoyed the stillness and inward-focus of most of the character portraits. A good audiobook to listen to, though I wonder now if the printed version does not include the graphic novel panels of Station Eleven :)