Books
May 8, 2020
The pandemic’s Cassandra
A book is about to be reissued — and I mean really reissued, 100,000 print copies — by the young Toronto writer Emily St. John Mandel. Her newest novel, “The Glass Hotel,” is no sneeze, dealing as it does with Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme and other post-2018 financial mega-scams. But “Station Eleven,” a treasure she wrote in 2014, has an eerier and much broader subject. Its narrative posits a global pandemic, an animal-to-human transferred respiratory virus that shuts down her country, then the country below it, then Europe, and then the whole world.
Richard Wirick
Partner
Risk Management and Insurance Litigation (RMIL) Practice Group at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Haight).
A book is about to be reissued -- and I mean really reissued, 100,000 print copies -- by the young Toronto writer Emily St. John Mandel. Her newest novel, "The Glass Hotel," is no sneeze, dealing as it does with Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme and other post-2018 financial mega-scams. But "Station Eleven," a treasure she wrote in 2014, has an eerier and much broader subject. Its narrative posits a global pandemic, an animal-to-human transferred respiratory virus that sh...
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