Imagine a world-wide flu pandemic with rapid transmission and a 99% mortality rate! Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, this timely and “audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse” (book jacket), will be discussed at the UUFM Book Group meeting on Thursday, March 26, 202
0 (6:30-7 PM Meet and Greet; 7-8:30 Discussion). All interested are warmly invited even if you have not been able to read the book. A four-page handout with character descriptions, theme synopses and excerpts is available in electronic or paper format from Barbara Keating.
Civilization, Memory, Death, Art, Faith and Divorce are deftly interwoven themes in this 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award winning novel. Civilization collapses within weeks without electricity, running water or gasoline for vehicles abandoned everywhere. Survivors gather in subsistence-level villages. The story moves between characters’ lives before the pandemic, the collapse itself and fifteen years later. A group of actors and musicians, known as the Traveling Symphony, bring Shakespeare and music to the towns in the Great Lakes area because “Survival is Insufficient.”
A four-page handout with character descriptions, theme synopses and excerpts
General Information about the Book discussion Group
The Book Discussion Group meets on the 4th. Thursday of odd numbered months from 6:30 P.M.-8:30 P.M. at the UUFM. Often the book selection is available for check-out in the UUFM library. At each meeting, participants democratically decide on which book will be discussed at the next meeting. Announcements of books to be discussed are posted in the UUFM Weekly as well as in the Order of Service.
A common statement from participants is: “I would have never read this if it was not selected for the Book Discussion Group, but I am glad that I read this book.”
Here is a list of books previously read by the Book Discussion Group.
All are welcome to attend this group with socializing from 6:30-7:00 P.M and the discussion 7:00-8:30 P.M.