Deeply melancholy, but beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac. . . . A book that I will long remember, and return to. - George R. R. Martin
Station Eleven is so compelling, so fearlessly imagined, that I wouldn’t have put it down for anything. - Ann Patchett
Like Cloud Atlas, the back-and-forth movements in Station Eleven allow the author to make thematic connections across time. But Station Eleven takes the device an exciting step further. It uses the movements in time to build an incredible emotional depth into its characters. . . . The result is a novel that carries a magnificent depth. . . . It’s a sweeping look at where we are, how we got here and where we might go. While her previous novels are cracking good reads, this is her best yet. - The Globe and Mail
A novel that carries a magnificent depth. . . . It’s a sweeping look at where we are, how we got here and where we might go. While her previous novels are cracking good reads, this is her best yet. - The Globe and Mail
Once in a very long while a book becomes a brand-new old friend, a story you never knew you always wanted. Station Eleven is that rare find. Absolutely extraordinary. - Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus
A genuinely unsettling dystopian novel that also allows for moments of great tenderness. Emily St. John Mandel conjures indelible visuals, and her writing is pure elegance. - Patrick deWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers
Haunting and riveting. . . . It’s not just the residents of Mandel’s post-collapse world who need to forge stronger connections and live for more than mere survival. So do we all. - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Station Eleven is a firework of a novel. Elegantly constructed and packed with explosive beauty, it’s full of life and humanity and the aftershock of memory. - Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls
A magnificent, compulsive novel. . . . Oh, the pleasure of falling down the rabbit hole of Mandel’s imagination-a dark, shimmering place. - Liza Klaussmann, author of Tigers in Red Weather
Disturbing, inventive and exciting, Station Eleven left me wistful for a world where I still live. - Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist
Station Eleven is the kind of book that speaks to dozens of the readers in me-the Hollywood devotee, the comic book fan, the cult junkie, the love lover, the disaster tourist. It is a brilliant novel, and Emily St. John Mandel is astonishing. - Emma Straub, author of The Vacationers
Ambitious, magnificent. . . . Mandel’s vision is not only achingly beautiful but startlingly plausible, exposing the fragile beauty of the world we inhabit. In the burgeoning post-apocalyptic literary genre, Mandel’s transcendent, haunting novel deserves a place alongside The Road, The Passage, and The Dog Stars. - Booklist (starred review)
In this unforgettable, haunting, and almost hallucinatory portrait of life at the edge, those who remain struggle to retain their basic humanity and make connections with the vanished world through art, memory, and remnants of popular culture. . . . A brilliantly constructed, highly literary, post-apocalyptic page-turner. - Library Journal (starred review)
Darkly lyrical. . . . A truly haunting book, one that is hard to put down. - Seattle Times
Mesmerizing. - People
A unique point of departure from which to examine civilization’s wreckage. . . . [A] wild fusion of celebrity gossip and grim future. . . . Mandel’s examination of the connections between individuals with disparate destinies makes a case for the worth of even a single life. - Publishers Weekly
A beautiful and unsettling book. . . . Mandel’s skill in portraying her post-apocalyptic world makes her fictional creation seem a terrifyingly real possibility. Apocalyptic stories once offered the reader a scary view of an alternative reality and the opportunity, on putting the book down, to look around gratefully at the real world. This is a book to make its reader mourn the life we still lead and the privileges we still enjoy. - Sunday Express (London)
A novel that miraculously reads like equal parts page-turner and poem. One of her great feats is that the story feels spun rather than plotted, with seamless shifts in time and characters. . . . This is not a story of crisis and survival. It’s one of art and family and memory and community and the awful courage it takes to look upon the world with fresh and hopeful eyes. - Entertainment Weekly
Gracefully written and suspenseful. . . . Its evocation of the collapse of our civilization is powerful. - National Post
It’s hard to imagine a novel more perfectly suited, in both form and content, to this literary moment. - The New Yorker
An exciting and thought-provoking must-read. - Chatelaine
A superb novel . . . [that] leaves us not fearful for the end of the world but appreciative of the grace of everyday existence. - San Francisco Chronicle
“[An] ambitious take on a post-apocalyptic world where some strive to preserve art, culture and kindness. . . . Think of Cormac McCarthy seesawing with Joan Didion. . . . Magnetic. . . . A breakout novel. - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
