19 January 2024

The Glass Hotel

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel is a wonderful genre blending story.

The Hotel Caiette is on the northern edge of Vancouver Island. Vincent is working at the hotel the night someone carves a message into the front window, the same night a very wealthy man is due to arrive. 

What follows is a story hinted at in Mandel's novel Sea of Tranquility, the story of Vincent and the life she lives with the very wealthy Jonathan Alkaitis. 

This is a story of crisis and survival, greed and guilt, unintended consequences, and the search for meaning. Emily St. John Mandel is one of the great writers of our time. Read all of her books!

Mandel, Emily St. John. (2020). The Glass Hotel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 

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