Station Eleven

I have been reading way too many apocalyptic novels lately. "Station Eleven" is another one. The world comes to a screeching halt when the Georgia flu nearly wipes out the human population in a few weeks. One young survivor, Kirsten Raymonde, is part of a travelling theater and orchestra, bringing rare moments of happiness to the enclaves left in the aftermath of the flu. After becoming separated from the group, she is hunted by the leader of a dangerous cult. This is just the barest of summaries of the book. It's actually much more, reminding me of the multithreaded films "Babel" and "Amores Peros" by Alejandro González Iñárritu, filled with the intertwining stories of multiple people before and after apocalypse comes. It was riveting, and like a great end-of-the-world story, it made me have to regularly stop, take deep breaths, walk around, and remind myself that "it's only a story".

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