Emily St. John Mandel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of King Lear. Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur's chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded and...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Best Fiction of 2022 - Kirkus Reviews
Greenhorn Valley Book Club 2022
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: April 4, 2022
Popular Books from 2022, for the Pueblo Chieftain, January 3, 2023
Greenhorn Valley Book Club 2022
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: April 4, 2022
Popular Books from 2022, for the Pueblo Chieftain, January 3, 2023
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"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets"--