Station Eleven Is a Disarmingly Hopeful Post-Apocalyptic Tale

When Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling novel Station Eleven debuted in 2014, North American culture (and beyond) was gripped with post-apocalypse fascination. Y.A. fiction was rife with dystopia, thanks in large part to The Hunger Games and its attendant film franchise. The Walking Dead was one of the biggest shows in the world; HBO’s The Leftovers would appear that year, too. Mandel’s book, then, was greeted as something of a refreshment. The novel is a decades-spanning look at the immediate onset and long-lingering effects of a flu pandemic that kills billions. The ragged, miraculously hopeful survivors (well, some of them… Read Full Article