Exit Party

Ambitious and captivating … the novel will rightly entrance new readers while gripping Mandel’s existing ones. Exit Party feels like the culmination of her career so far, combining the thrills and mysteries of the author’s early crime novels with the expansive premises and speculative ruminations of later novels like Station Eleven – The New York Times
What makes Exit Party a superlative example of the form is its structural cohesiveness, its expert play of signs and symbols, its psychological realism. Mandel’s imaginative landscapes have from the first been intricately constructed, an elegant dance in which plot, character and idea appear effortlessly matched. In Exit Party, her ability to handle a complex array of material while never once allowing her focus to drift from the human story reaches new heights … extraordinary – The Guardian
Over the course of seven novels, Mandel has established herself as one of the most fascinating writers of speculative fiction … What is it to be human, she asks, in a world quite so heavily controlled? An amazing book by an amazing writer – The i Paper
Beautifully written … a sweeping saga … One of the joys of her novels is that though you frequently have no idea where the story is travelling, you have confidence as a reader that it is moving towards a clear resolution. It is not that all loose ends are neatly tied but you know there is a destination … St John Mandel is a beautiful writer. Reading her work is like slipping into a warm pool … there are times when she calls to mind Paul Auster and his characters dancing to the music of chance – Financial Times
The novel’s two-handed structure pulls off exhilarating feats of narrative derring-do … It [… ] works beautifully. Mandel is a virtuoso of complication, catching the reader up in suspense, then providing answers slowly, thoroughly, satisfyingly. Exit Party concerns two parallel worlds, but is itself a whole one. Readers will want to linger in it – Times Literary Supplement
She deftly creates emotional resonance through events that feel like a slanted take on our own times … Exit Party, like much of her work, makes the case for relishing small moments of joy, frightening as the world is – The Guardian
An elegant, gracefully written crime story with sci-fi shadings – The New Yorker
This kind of emotional depth is rare. Mandel’s triumph here is to take genre tropes and create something new from them. Literary science fiction of the highest standard – SFX
A tremendous, riveting, deeply human novel—one of the best I’ve read in years – WIRED
An Emily St. John Mandel novel is always cause for excitement … Another kaleidoscopic, genre-and-planet-spanning jewel of a book. I’ll let her take me everywhere and anywhere. – Emily Temple, LitHub
A glittering puzzle box of a novel … [The] novel brilliantly ties the notion of parallel timelines to a political theme, positing a dark twinship between chaos and totalitarianism… . This is [Mandel’s] best novel since Station Eleven, a cause for rejoicing among her fans and an inspiration for newbies to dive into the backlist. Both a thrilling read and a virtuoso demonstration of the moral and philosophical possibilities of speculative fiction – Kirkus (Starred Review)
Mandel always writes with clarity and precision. Her perceptive new dystopian novel explores what is lost in a rush to safety; it’s a hymn to what falls when the center doesn’t hold – Library Journal (Starred Review)
As ever in her own wholly original and singular way, Mandel offers up a completely compelling, richly rendered yarn that’s sure to generate both major interest and discussion – Booklist (Starred Review)
Masterful … a dizzying story of doubles and parallel universes. Mandel’s assured tale offers bracing commentary on the dangers of divisiveness and surveillance, and the propulsive plot is fueled by the unfolding mystery of the initiating party scene. It’s a tour de force – Publishers Weekly
As elegant and brilliantly executed as her fans have grown to expect, a book in which every detail matters … It is a wonderfully thoughtful book … bravo to Emily St. John Mandel, an absolute force in modern fiction – New Scientist
Terrific … A book that will move you … The story deepens and expands in unexpected ways, across generations, into marriages, betrayals and rare acts of decency … In the world of Exit Party, through all of its tragic turns, we find Mandel at her best – The Boston Globe
Ingenious … There’s comfort in Mandel’s arresting vision here of a universe in which time is porous and people are duplicated in somewhat altered form. In such a universe, maybe another America is waiting to be born, too – NPR
The world is in chaos in Exit Party, and so are the constructs of reality and linear time. From this welter of disorder, Ms. Mandel seamlessly engineers a pair of … Rube Goldberg-style plots … Ari and her counterpart are smart, resilient, personable women who, for all their wrongdoing, have a gift for finding happiness in the midst of breakdown. The hope they represent is the stabilizing force that bridges Ms. Mandel’s enterprising fiction – The Wall Street Journal
Breathtaking … Spanning centuries and continents, this elegant, eerie puzzlebox of a novel is both a page-turner and a sharp look at the funhouse-mirror distortions of authoritarianism and political chaos. Easter egg connections to Mandel’s earlier novels (including her landmark Station Eleven) will thrill devoted fans – Oprah Daily
Once again, Emily St. John Mandel shows us how it’s done … There is a depth of character development that rivals much of her best work … What really matters in this novel is people, emotions, and what it means to live a good life … Whether or not you’ve read any Mandel, consider taking a deep dive into this – The Brooklyn Rail
Exit Party is an original and perceptive reflection on our current world, and surely a novel everyone will be talking about this year – Town & Country
In this captivating read … it’s 2031 Los Angeles and the first spring after the fall of the United States. The mood is exuberant, as troops have left the city and a curfew has finally been lifted. Ari and her roommate go to a party, but their host vanishes. While Ari tries to piece together what happened that night, a gripping narrative unfolds, spanning the globe and asking fascinating questions about resilience in a fractured world – Real Simple
The collapse of an entire society—its politics, its rhythms of daily life—doesn’t happen overnight. It comes progressively, in overlapping waves, until a culture becomes unrecognizable—a brutal truth at the heart of Emily St. John Mandel’s masterpiece novel, Exit Party – Sierra Magazine
She’s done it again … the perfect accumulation of all the novels that came before * New York Magazine *

Emily St. John Mandel is the author of seven novels.

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