Exit Party - Emily St John Mandel

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From the bestselling author of Station Eleven, Exit Party is Emily St. John Mandel's epic new story of crimes committed and loves lost across worlds and decades. 2031. America is at war with itself, but for the first time in weeks there is some hope: the Republic of California has been declared, the curfew in Los Angeles is lifted, and everyone in the city is going to a party. Ari, newly released from prison, arrives with her friend Gloria just as a fragile new era begins. But there are people at the party who shouldn't be there. Something is very wrong . . . Years later, living a different life in Paris, Ari remains haunted by that night. Whatever happened at the party fractured her sense of reality - and may hold the key to a very different world. Freedom and surveillance, art and survival, love and loss in a broken world: Exit Party is the electrifying new novel from Emily St. John Mandel. Praise for Emily St. John Mandel:'It is heaven to be immersed in the waters of Mandel's imagination' - Naomi Alderman, author of The Power
'Emily St. John Mandel conjures indelible visuals, and her writing is pure elegance' - Patrick deWitt, author of Dodge City
'Mandel is a terrific storyteller' - The Sunday Times
'No one can create beautiful, enmeshed, startlingly clever worlds the way Mandel does' - Daisy Johnson, author of Long Wave'A damn fine novel . . . haunting and evocative and immersive . . . I am a big Emily St. John Mandel fanboy' - George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones, on The Glass Hotel'A spiraling, transportive triumph of storytelling - sci-fi with soul' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of Almost Life on Sea of Tranquility