Emily St. John Mandel's New Novel 'Exit Party' Builds on Favorite Themes in Her 'Mandelverse'
Mandel’s latest novel reunites characters and themes from earlier books, extending the interconnected Mandelverse across crime fiction and science fiction.
- Author Emily St. John Mandel released her latest novel, "Exit Party," on Monday, gathering characters and themes from "Station Eleven" and "Sea of Tranquility" that readers of her previous works will recognize.
- Blending crime fiction and science fiction, the narrative is set in a post-traumatic future beginning in 2031 Los Angeles, where character Ari Waker from "The Singer's Gun" has been released from prison as the United States fragments.
- Mandel's unconventional path began when she dropped out of high school to pursue dance at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, crediting her imagination partly to growing up on Canada's Denman Island.
- Her previous success, "Station Eleven," sold more than 1 million copies and became an HBO miniseries, establishing what admirers call the "Mandelverse"—interconnected novels readers can access independently.
- Mandel's novels explore chaos, identity, impermanence, and transcendence. In "Station Eleven," she wrote, "What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.
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I’ll Take the Irish Exit: The Concept of Leaving in Emily St. John Mandel’s "Exit Party" - Chicago Review of Books
Indie rock artist Eliza McLamb’s song “Irish Exit” details the slow fade out from intimacy towards the safety of oneself or at least the concept of being known. But what happens when you Irish Exit out from a party and through a revolving door to another version of yourself wearing the skin of another life.…
If the US Collapses Soon, Don’t Blame Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel, “Station Eleven,” turned her into something of a pandemic prophet. Her new novel, “Exit Party,” imagines two possible American futures—totalitarian state and post-civil-war chaos.
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The Seattle TimesEmily St. John Mandel’s new novel ‘Exit Party’ builds on favorite themes in her ‘Mandelverse’
Emily St. John Mandel has written enough novels to form a world unto herself — the Mandelverse. In “Station Eleven” and other books, she brings back characters from previous narratives and returns to favorite themes like transience and reinvention. Artists have been known to say that a given work is the culmination of what preceded it, and Mandel’s latest, “Exit Party,” gathers characters and themes that readers of “Station Eleven,” “Sea of Tran…
Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel ‘Exit Party’ builds on favorite themes in her ‘Mandelverse’ – WTOP News
NEW YORK (AP) — After seven novels that span centuries, continents and even planets, Emily St. John Mandel has not only created a substantial body of work, but a universe unto herself — what admirers like to call the Mandelverse. “It means that the novels, although they can be read entirely alone and independently, have...
Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Exit Party’ splits America in two — and both futures terrify
What if the United States split, shattering into violent shards that left a once-great nation unrecognizable? Or … what if it didn’t? How much would we be willing to give up in the name of security?
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