Thank you to HarperCollins Canada for supporting Emily St. John Mandel’s appearance in Vancouver.
The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines. We’re thrilled to present Emily St. John Mandel in Vancouver with Exit Party on Monday, September 21.
A man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman—a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State—searches for answers. Emily St. John Mandel unfurls a story that takes us from a future America splintered by civil war to the seaside cliffs of Greece where weapons dealers hide in an elegant resort, and from the domed city of Paris to a colony on the moon. An unforgettable literary feat, Exit Party is a novel about the price of safety, the perils of the surveillance state, a requiem for a world not unlike our own, and a story of resilience in the face of cataclysmic change.
St. John Mandel will speak to this latest masterpiece; her extraordinary body of work, including anticipated TV adaptations of both Exit Party and The Glass Hotel; and more, in conversation with award-winning journalist and literary critic Michelle Cyca. Books will be for sale at the event from Book Warehouse, a division of Black Bond Books.
Participants and Speakers
Emily St. John Mandel
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL is the author of seven novels. Her previous book, Sea of Tranquility, has been translated into 25 languages and was selected by President Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of 2022. Her other previous novels include The Glass Hotel, which was also on Obama’s list, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and has been translated into 26 languages; and Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award among other honors, has been translated into 36 languages, and aired as a limited series on HBO Max. She lives in New York City and Los Angeles.
Michelle Cyca
MICHELLE CYCA is bureau chief for The Narwhal and a contributing writer to The Walrus. Her literary criticism and books coverage appears in Quill & Quire, The Globe & Mail, The Tyee and the Vancouver Sun. Michelle is a board member for Upstart & Crow, a non-profit society and literary incubator based on Granville Island, and the chair of tâpwêwin media, an independent, Indigenous-led publishing non-profit. She is a member of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Treaty 6, and she lives and works in Vancouver on unceded Musqueam territory.