Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, is a beautifully crafted post-apocalyptic novel unlike others in the same genre. After a flu wipes out 99 percent of Earth’s population, those left are finding a way to live.

The novel moves back and forth through time, from an actor who dies on the night the pandemic starts, to the paramedic in training who tries to revive him, to a child actor who survives, and 20 years later is living with a Traveling Symphony performing Shakespeare plays to other survivors.

These characters are linked together through wonderful details and images, not least of which is the comic Station Eleven, from which the book gets its name.

An original, well written and haunting novel that you won’t soon forget.