Every year for the past 14 years The Santa Monica community
has held what has come to be known as Santa Monica Reads. This is a time when
the library chooses a book the general public will be reading and discussing
for a period of time.
This year the book is of the genre science fiction. It takes
place sometime in the future when the world is being invaded by a strain of
virus referred to as the Georgia flu. Not everyone is killed but the world is
altered.
The story centers on a female called Kirsten Raymonde yet is
told in the third person. It is layered as it moves between time and
characters. It always returns to Kirsten who at the start of the story is seen
as a young child playacting in King Lear. She is part of a group called the Symphony.
As the story develops we are carried along as she strives to understand what
has happened.
The story is a search motif or maybe a quest.
The story is told in both the present and the future
covering a long stretch of time.
The title Station Eleven refers to a place where life
can start over, a place of rescue.
The story appears to be not an optimistic one. A strain of
flu sweeps through the world. Societies are broken up. Those left are trying to
find each other to start over.
But it ends in hope as a new community is seen through a spy
glass-- Their station eleven.
No comments:
Post a Comment