Emily St. John Mandel chronicles a global pandemic and financial crisis in her novels, 'Station Eleven' and 'The Glass Hotel.'
. “oth books, in their ways, examine how we respond to chaos after catastrophe.”
Mandel has sold more than a million copies of “Station Eleven,” which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award. The book has been translated into 33 languages. “Station Eleven” also is the basis for an, which started production in Chicago last winter before the real-life pandemic crisis.
On May 19 Mandel will discuss both novels when she joins the L.A. Times Book Club at 7 p.m. for a virtual event that will be live streamed on the Los Angeles Times Facebook Page and on YouTube. The Times’ community book club began last year with live forums and shifted to virtual meetups after the coronavirus crisis hit. Recent virtual book club events featured authors Steph Cha and Joe Ide talking about writing
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