[Informal Review] Station Eleven

*review taken from my account on Goodreads

This book is just wonderful. It is somewhat complicated at first, since the characters and the events they are experiencing seemed too fast. At one point, Mandel tells the story of this certain person, the next she moves on to another one as if the previous person doesn't really add much to the story. And just when you think it's all over, it's actually not. The timeskips in the book may be discomforting for some who likes a fast read. But in this case, when matched with Mandel's gorgeous writing, it is magic. The narrations are memorable, and I like how she draws in the humanness of her characters. It's like reading poetry, but not with stanzas. Reading poetry of a story that spans a lifetime. And not just a story, but a story of different people, their differences and their likeness, how they all huddle up in the same world that is dying, and how all the same they are struggling. I loved how she interwove their individual stories. Whether pre-pandemic, pandemic, or post pandemic, the story never lost it's kind of flow. And even when the book ended, and how the world ended in her story, that world feels very much alive.

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