Millennials Book Club Meeting

Millennials Book Club Meeting

Tuesday, October 25, 2016 Millennials Book Club Meeting

ABOUT THE EVENT

Phoenixville Public Library

presents

Millennials Book Club

at

Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant

Adults in their 20s and 30s are invited to discuss Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven.

This is an audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor’s early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains-this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor’s first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet. Sometimes terrifying, sometimes tender, “Station Eleven” tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it.

A copy of the book may be reserved at the Library or at www.ccls.org. This event is free and open to the public. No reservations required. Food and drink not included but will be available for purchase. For more information, e-mail Lindsay Friedenberg at lfriedenberg@gmail.com.