Emily St. John Mandel, best known for her prescient flu pandemic novel Station Eleven, joined the New 女生小视频 Book Club to talk about her latest book, the science-fiction novel Exit Party. Emily discussed everything from why she is compelled to write about the aftermath of disaster 鈥� this latest book takes place in a near-future US, after a civil war 鈥� to how hard it was to keep ahead of the US news cycle as she wrote.
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Emily St. John Mandel: ‘I don’t want to write something relentlessly bleak’
The science-fiction novelist talks to Alison Flood about her latest book Exit Party, a tale of parallel worlds that is the October read for the New 女生小视频 Book Club
