Station Eleven
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Where did you do most of your reading of this one, and did the book make you want to pull a blanket over your knees?
What is one ordinary object in your home you would grab first if you had to leave, and did the book make you look at it differently?
The traveling company insists on performing Shakespeare for small scattered audiences. What did it feel like to read that, and when has art felt that necessary to you?
This book lingers on small comforts (a paperweight, a comic book, a remembered meal). Which small comfort in the story stayed with you, and what is yours?
Mandel moves between before and after without warning. Which timeline did you find yourself most relieved to return to, and why do you think that is?
The Station Eleven comics are something a character makes mostly for herself. Do you have a quiet creative thing you make for no audience, and how did reading about hers land for you?
The book keeps circling the idea that survival is not enough. Was there a moment where that idea moved you, and did it change what you think a good life needs?
Characters keep turning up in each other's stories in ways they never learn about. How did that make you feel about the people who have passed through your own life without knowing their effect?