Set in a world after civilization's collapse, Station Eleven is the epic story of a Hollywood celebrity, his potential savior, and a troupe of actors who travel the Great Lakes region, fighting for art and for humankind. On a snow-blanketed night, an A-list actor suddenly dies onstage while performing King Lear. And soon after, the world we know disintegrates. Moving from the star's rise to fame to fifteen years later, when a nomadic theater ensemble called the Traveling Symphony roams the devastated landscape, this mesmerizing narrative connects five individuals: the actor, the man who attempted to save him, his first wife, an old friend, and a young actress in the Symphony, who faces danger from a malevolent prophet.
HarperCollins Publishers, First Canadian Paperback, 2014
