An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's
collapse, "Station Eleven "tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his
would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of
the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage
during a production of "King Lear." Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is
in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde
watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur's chest as the curtain
drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night,