Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel, Kirsten Potter (Narrator)
Set in Toronto initially at locations I've actually visited such as Allan Gardens, The Elgin, Queens Quay. I've ridden streetcars, the subway. I'm getting tired of attempting to follow novels that jump around in time and place. We have here a traveling troop of entertainers somehow linked to a former star actor/movie star. Throw in the EMT we meet in the initial stages.
At the heart of this tale is a Pandemic which figures in a story written 6 years before Covid. The troop attempts to make a living in a post-apocalyptic world. Described in detail are the inevitable tensions between the performers inevitable in any close-knit group.
I've assayed reading this book several times since it first came out and may make better progress listening to an audiobook.
The time and place are constantly changing back in time to earlier periods of key character's lives. Members of the orchestra are referred to by the instruments they play, not their names.
Station Eleven is a space station in a Graphic Novel.
The book begins and ends with the death of the character playing King Lear.
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