Emily St. John Mandel

2031. America is at war with itself, but for the first time in weeks there is some hope: the Republic of California has been declared, the curfew in Los Angeles is lifted, and everyone in the city is going to a party.

Ari, newly released from prison, arrives with her friend Gloria just as a fragile new era begins. But there are people at the party who shouldn’t be there. Something is very wrong . . .

Years later, living a different life in Paris, Ari remains haunted by that night. Whatever happened at the party fractured her sense of reality – and may hold the key to a very different world.

Exit Party is Emily St. John Mandel’s electrifying new novel about freedom and surveillance, art and survival, love and loss in a broken world.

Exit Party

Nate

…some people think when you die, you get one last dream. Think about the way time works in dreams. Those seven minutes might feel like a lifetime.

As night fell the last light remaining was on the highest floor of the tower.

Below is the darkness we traveled onward.

Wind on your face, darkness, scattered lights. Lights in the darkness. Always coming home.

“I think if you lived long enough, you become a migrant from another timeline. There’s the world you learn to navigate as you enter adulthood, and then that world slips away from you by degrees, and after a while there’s nothing left of it, but you’re still here.”

What is transport? It’s the movement of matter through time and space.

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