“I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.”
In a few short days, society collapses as upwards of 90 percent of humanity succumbs to a deadly virus. Taking out its victims in less than 48 hours, the virus makes quick work and surprises even the most prepared. Survivors include lucky airline flight with no contamination on board, people isolated for work trips, souls out on boats and those blessed with an immune system that fights the virus and wins. Twenty years later, those who have survived are starting to rebuild in Station Eleven.
While searching for books to read while waiting for my holds to become free, I came across Station Eleven. I do enjoy a good dystopian novel, so I knew I would enjoy the plot of Station Eleven. I had to look up when it was written since it deals with a deadly pandemic, but it was written in 2014.
The Traveling Symphony goes from village to village providing musical and theater entertainment in the world that exists 20 years after the pandemic. The characters are all tied together somehow back to an actor named Arthur Leander. His first wife had published a graphic novel, which lands in the hands of Kristen, a girl who was on stage with Arthur when he passed away as almost patient-zero. She’s with the Traveling Symphony and clings to the world presented in the graphic novel about people who escaped Earth on a huge spacecraft named Station Eleven.
Station Eleven was super interesting to read during this time in our world history. What would the world be like if even close to as many died as did in this novel? However, as the theme of many dystopian books, hope is central to Station Eleven. People always look forward, no matter what they go through and face.
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