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In 2014, after years of writing in relative obscurity, Emily St. John Mandel published a breakaway novel. “

” was a huge hit, selling more than 1.5 million copies and receiving critical acclaim. It was even made into 

Eerily enough, “Station Eleven” was set in a world confronting a global pandemic. Her new novel, “

,” is also set in the future — and the past — thanks to a time-traveling narrative the weaves together five centuries across space and time. 

This Friday, as part of the Big Books and Bold Ideas conversation, MPR News host Kerri Miller stepped into the void with Mandel. They talk about the folly of time travel, how hinge moments are often recognized only in hindsight, and the constant contingency of living. Who would we be if we weren’t ourselves?

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The best-selling author of “Station Eleven” and “The Glass Hotel” is back with a novel of art, time, love and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later.

The best-selling author of “Station Eleven” and “The Glass Hotel” is back with a novel of art, time, love and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later.

Emily St. John Mandel on time travel, destiny and what might have been

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Emily St. John Mandel on time travel, destiny and what might have been

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