An Evening with Emily St John Mandel
About this Event
In partnership with AfterWords Literary Festival, Bookmark is thrilled to welcome bestselling author Emily St John Mandel to Halifax for the launch of her new book Exit Party. We hope you can join us on Friday, October 23rd at 6:30 pm in the Paul O'Regan Hall at the Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road for a not-to-be missed evening of books and conversation. If you joined our virtual event for the launch of The Glass Hotel, you already know how wonderful this event is going to be. Award-winning author, Stephanie Domet will join Emily St John Mandel in conversation.
The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines.
Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted. Ari Waker and her roommate pass the gauntlet of bomb-sniffing dogs, the shanty towns, and the Red Cross tents as they walk across Silverlake to a party. The mood is ecstatic inside the apartment, people drink and dance, a woman wears a silver dress, pleated like tinfoil. And then: A shift. A bewildered twin, an uncanny doppelganger stumbles through the crowd and out into the night, and Kareem, the party’s host, vanishes into thin air.
As Ari Waker unravels the mystery of this inexplicable night, Emily St. John Mandel unfurls a story that takes us from a future America splintered by civil war to the seaside cliffs of Greece where weapons dealers hide in an elegant resort, and from the domed city of Paris to a colony on the moon. An unforgettable literary feat, Exit Party is a novel about the price of safety, the perils of the surveillance state, a requiem for a world not unlike our own, and a breathtaking story of resilience in the face of cataclysmic change.
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL is the author of six previous novels, including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, which was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, and Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and was included in the New York Times Best 100 Books of the 21st Century list. Her work has been translated into thirty-seven languages and adapted for television, including the Station Eleven series and the recently announced Exit Party series, which Emily will be a co-showrunner.
STEPHANIE DOMET is a writer, editor, and teacher who lives in Kjipuktuk. She is the co-founder and co-executive director of the AfterWords Literary Festival, the author of novels Homing and Fallsy Downsies and the co-author of Amazing Atlantic Canadian Women.
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