February Book Club & Meeting

Join us this month to discuss Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. We will be meeting at the bookstore at 7:30pm, Saturday, February 25 to discuss the book and share wine & snacks. 

This book was a finalist for the National Book Award (2014) and the PEN/Faulkner Award (2015). It won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel (2015) and has been a nominee for the Sunburst Award (2015), John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2015), British Fantasy Award (2015), Toronto Book Award (2015), The Great Michigan Read (2015), Women's Prize for Fiction (2015), and Goodread's Choice Award for Fiction (2014). 

Here's how the publisher describes it: 
Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. 

Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.

It's also received some attention from these authors:

“Station Eleven is so compelling, so fearlessly imagined, that I wouldn’t have put it down for anything.” 
— Ann Patchett

“Deeply melancholy, but beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac . . . A book that I will long remember, and return to.”
— George R. R. Martin

 “Absolutely extraordinary.” —Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus

And from these publications:

“It’s hard to imagine a novel more perfectly suited, in both form and content, to this literary moment. Station Eleven, if we were to talk about it in our usual way, would seem like a book that combines high culture and low culture—“literary fiction” and “genre fiction.” But those categories aren’t really adequate to describe the book” —The New Yorker

“Possibly the most captivating and thought-provoking post-apocalyptic novel you will ever read.” —The Independent (London)


“Strange, poetic, thrilling, and grim all at once, Station Eleven is a prismatic tale about survival, unexpected coincidences, and the significance of art.” —Bustle, “Best Book of the Month”

We're beyond excited to read and discuss the book with our book club members. If you want to join, RSVP in the form below so Mary knows how much wine to bring ;) You can get the book at Foggy Pine for $15.95 + 15% off when you mention the book club! See you soon, book friends!