DirkReading reviewed Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel
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I already knew from my experience reading Station Eleven that I love Mandel's taste and writing style. Her latest book, Exit Party, is wonderfully unique. While it is technically sci-fi, I would argue that the book centers around the eternal idea of the counter-life - the life not lived, the paths not taken, and what they would do to us. The story sucked me in and made me fall in love with most of the characters. It plays with the idea of a multiverse against the backdrop of two radically different variants of a post-breakdown United States, but that setting primarily serves to give rich texture to the characters themselves. This may be the best book I've read this year, and I think I'll need to put all of Mandel's books on my reading list now.
I already knew from my experience reading Station Eleven that I love Mandel's taste and writing style. Her latest book, Exit Party, is wonderfully unique. While it is technically sci-fi, I would argue that the book centers around the eternal idea of the counter-life - the life not lived, the paths not taken, and what they would do to us. The story sucked me in and made me fall in love with most of the characters. It plays with the idea of a multiverse against the backdrop of two radically different variants of a post-breakdown United States, but that setting primarily serves to give rich texture to the characters themselves. This may be the best book I've read this year, and I think I'll need to put all of Mandel's books on my reading list now.