For the final MashableReads selection of the year, we've chosen Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Station Eleven is a beautiful, haunting book that will stay with you long after you read it, and we hope that you will read along with us in the MashableReads book club.
In Station Eleven, St. John Mandel manages to take a topic that has been well-worn by recent fiction and transform it into a completely new literary experience. In the near-distant future of Station Eleven, a pandemic has killed most of the human population, and civilization as we know it has crumbled. Traveling by caravan around the Great Lakes region is a group of actors and musicians who perform Shakespeare for those left alive. Station Eleven explores multiple timelines, including the decades leading up to society's collapse, and the relationships between individuals and art that persist even past the end of the world.
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