![]() Below this strange and unexpected mixture lies a deeper examination of art and its inspiration, family, and the role that chance plays in every trajectory. But, as ever with Mandel, this is just the surface plot. In The Glass Hotel, Mandel lays bare an altogether different kind of devastation, one in which she braids together a ghost story and a Ponzi scheme in order to reveal the havoc that death and financial ruin can have on disparate but interconnected characters. ![]() While that illness is not on par with what Mandel imagined in Station Eleven, it was close enough that I was terrified to read about the next disaster she saw in her crystal ball. When I sat down to read her latest, The Glass Hotel, the coronavirus was just beginning to spread. JOHN MANDEL’S previous novel, Station Eleven, begins with the onset of a devastating flu that, within weeks, ends all civilization as we know it. ![]()
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