Station Eleven’s set up is typical for a post-apocalyptic story: worldwide epidemic (in this case, the Georgia Flu) wipes out nearly everyone (in this case, 99%) in a short amount of time (in this case, less than a week). Lucky survivors toughen up or die in the new world, quickly learning how to live without modern technology, grieving their lost loved ones–and lost comforts–and try to figure out what’s next for themselves and humanity. Babies are born, people band together, life is brutal and often short. Settlements […]
Survival is Insufficient
Sometimes, a book comes out with a lot of hype attached to it. The writer is supposedly the next “big thing” and there’s a huge buzz for months after the book’s release. Jonathan Franzen. The Dragon Tattoo books. The Hunger Games. Gone Girl. And these books (yeah, I hated The Corrections) don’t always live up to the hype for me. I’ve read tons and tons of rave reviews about Station Eleven over the past few weeks, and I was so worried that it would fall […]