Original Music inspired by Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven

A flu pandemic wipes out most of humanity in a matter of days. Fifteen years later, the Traveling Symphony moves between scattered survivor settlements performing Shakespeare and music, their motto: “Because survival is insufficient.” Kirsten was a child actress the night it all began; now she’s onstage in the ruins of the old world, making something beautiful. Mandel’s haunting novel asks what we hold onto when everything else is gone and answers with art, memory, and the strange grace of human connection.

“Deeply melancholy, but beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac . . . A book that I will long remember, and return to.”  – George R. R. Martin

“Strange, poetic, thrilling, and grim all at once, Station Eleven is a prismatic tale about survival, unexpected coincidences, and the significance of art.”  – Bustle, “Best Book of the Month”

Heads up: The world of Station Eleven features death, a pandemic, and violence, including references to sexual violence.

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