Station Eleven's Emily St. John Mandel for Exit Party
Tuesday 6th October, 7pm
Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath, York Street, Bath, Somerset BA1 1NG
6.30pm
7pm
Join science fiction master craftsman and author of Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel, to celebrate her new novel: Exit Party. This new novel spans space and time to discuss freedom and surveillance, art and survival, and love and loss in a broken world.
2031. America is at war with itself, but for the first time in weeks there is some hope: the Republic of California has been declared, the curfew in Los Angeles is lifted, and everyone in the city is going to a party.
Ari, newly released from prison, arrives with her friend Gloria just as a fragile new era begins. But there are people at the party who shouldn't be there. Something is very wrong . . .
Years later, living a different life in Paris, Ari remains haunted by that night. Whatever happened at the party fractured her sense of reality - and may hold the key to a very different world.
Emily St. John Mandel was born in Canada and studied dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Her novels include Last Night in Montreal, The Singer's Gun, The Lola Quartet, Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel, Sea of Tranquility and Exit Party. She lives in New York City.