6/28/2023 0 Comments Station eleven author![]() This is the fourth year WVU has selected a book designed to engage the campus and community in a yearlong discussion. ![]() There are no zombies, no drones, no Big Brother, and when you are finished you have hope, not horror.” Instead of featuring the worst of humanity, it focuses on beauty and truth, and the things that make us tick once we have satisfied our basic physiological needs. Although it is set in a dystopian future, it is about as far from “The Walking Dead” or “The Hunger Games” as you can get. “When you read it, you genuinely want to know what will happen next. It is a page-turner,” said Susan Lantz, director of the Campus Read. “This is a beautiful, engaging, well-written book. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Toronto Book Award and was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. “Station Eleven” was the winner of the Arthur C. ![]() This novel centers on characters connected to one another in unexpected ways. ![]() This is no post-apocalyptic thriller, but a hopeful story that focuses on a traveling theater and music troupe determined to bring beauty back to shattered communities. ![]() These are the questions at the heart of West Virginia University’s 2018-2019 Campus Read: “Station Eleven” by Emily St. Those remaining have figured out how to survive, but is that all there is: survival? What about beauty, art, history and human connection? A flu pandemic has decimated the population of the world, unraveling civilization and erasing centuries of technological and scientific advances. ![]()
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