![]() ![]() ![]() However, Last Night in Montreal was not without its rough edges which were nowhere in sight with the very polished Station Eleven. Her stories feel very deliberate and very purposeful. In both Station Eleven and Last Night in Montreal, she introduces both interconnected characters as well as meaningful objects that emerge in different ways across time and space. John Mandel writes like a dream, and she has a way of weaving together multiple timelines and points of view in a seamless fashion. At the same time, I was wary– it’s difficult working backwards through an author’s works because I’m constantly comparing the older books to newer, more polished and experienced works. John Mandel’s Station Eleven ( video review), one of my favorite books of 2014, I purchased her other three novels to read when I missed her writing too much. ![]() But what he discovers is a deeper mystery, one that will set past and present spinning toward collision.Īfter finishing Emily St. When Lilia goes out for a paper and fails to return to their Brooklyn apartment, he follows her to Montreal, not knowing whether he wants to disappear, too, or help her find her way home. Now, haunted by an inability to remember much about her early childhood, Lilia moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers and eluding the private detective who has dedicated a career to following close behind. When Lilia Albert was a child, her father appeared on the doorstep of her mother’s house and took her away. ![]()
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