Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

[King Bob]

I remember this got a lot of buzz when it came out, and I probably read a review but can't recall. I heard that it was a post-apocalyptic story (here a killer flu) about a traveling group of musicians and actors whose big thing is doing Shakespeare, but that's only part of it. It really is about connections among a group of people and their stories, and I'd say half of it takes place before the killer flu. So there are flashbacks, and switches of focus onto different characters. I suppose one could dismiss this as a mainstream novel dressed up with a popular genre theme for better sales, but I thought it worked and was well done. An artist's graphic novel project is a big part of it, both pre- and post-apocalypse, and a quote from Star Trek Voyager is a motto of the performers.