Station Eleven

A well written end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it story. Early in the book, civilization collapses as nearly the entire population dies from a quick-acting deadly flu. The book takes place, mostly, 20 years later with lots of flashbacks. The lives of people who knew a famous actor, who died on stage before the epidemic, converge in the aftermath. It is fairly slow moving but gradually builds so that we are in the novel's grip in the later parts of the book. The paths cross, we assume that the main character realizes the relationships, though the realization is not overt, and then things move on. I was a little disappointing in the ending.