The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel is absolutely one of the best books I have read in 2020. It is well documented how much I loved her previous novel (Station Eleven). My expectations were so high for this follow-up, that I was worried it would never be able to be enjoyable.
I could not have been more wrong! The Glass Hotel had all the elements that made Station Eleven special, presented in a totally fresh way.
The story is a meandering look at various intersecting lives. There’s a drug addict brother, an erstwhile sister and her Ponzi scheme running husband, many investors who lost everything, and a hotel in the middle of nowhere. Each story completes the other in roundabout ways that feel like real life. I can’t explain why the writing captured me the way it did, other than to say Mandel has a way of making the ordinary feel extraordinary.
You don’t have to have read any of Mandel’s previous works to enjoy The Glass Hotel, though there are some easter eggs hidden throughout the novel for those who have.
Let me know what you think!
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