Much like many fellow Cannonballers, I was highly anticipating this novel from Emil St. John Mandel after loving Station Eleven. Much like that book, The Glass Hotel offers a series of interconnected characters throughout different moments of their lives. The biggest difference, I felt however, was in the setting: while Station Eleven presents a hypothetical future world, The Glass Hotel is firmly rooted in reality and modern history, including the economic crash of 2008. Specifically, the narrative of The Glass Hotel centers on a woman […]

The newest novel by Emily St John Mandel finds us at a hotel on a small Canadian island where several characters initially interact. We begin with Paul who has run away from college after accidentally passing along bad E. He takes a job at the hotel where his sister works, and he gets involved in an act of curious vandalism that gets him fired. His sister Vincent meets the rich owner of the hotel and begins what she understands as a transactional relationship with him, […]