Mandel’s fourth novel, Station Eleven, is a post-apocalyptic novel set in the near future in a world ravaged by the effects of a virus and follows a troupe of Shakespearian actors who travel from town to town around the Great Lakes region. It was nominated for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Toronto Book Award.A film adaptation of the novel is in development by producer Scott Steindorff.

Please join us for her book discussion on Wednesday, September 28 in preparation for her visit to UST.
Mandel will be speaking at the University of Saint Thomas on Thursday, September 29. For more information about her talk please see the English Department website here: http://www.stthomas.edu/english/events/201640stationeleven.html