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Emily St. John Mandel Navigates Dystopian Futures
23 Sep
Summary
- Emily St. John Mandel's new novel 'Exit Party' explores a collapsed US government.
- The book features a dystopian Los Angeles with civil war refugees.
- Mandel also discusses adaptations of 'Station Eleven' and 'The Glass Hotel'.
Emily St. John Mandel's new novel, 'Exit Party,' is set in a near-future United States where the government has fallen.
Los Angeles is depicted as a refugee camp in the wake of a latent civil war, a concept Mandel developed during a visit to the city in 2022.
The narrative follows a character named Ari, who stumbles upon a portal to an alternate, surveillance-heavy version of L.A.
Mandel, known for inter-novel character reuse, crafted this future world, incorporating political anxieties.
She also shared insights into her television adaptation work, noting that the success of the 'Station Eleven' series proved her complex narratives could translate to the screen.
Discussions are ongoing for adaptations of 'The Glass Hotel' and 'Last Night in Montreal,' with a pilot script for 'Exit Party' already sold to Laika Studios.
