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One character, Vincent, a former bartender at the hotel, lives with Alkaitis for three years in a frictionless realm she thinks of as the “kingdom of money,” complying with his request that she pretend to be his wife although they aren’t actually married.

The question of what people keep when they lose everything clearly intrigues Mandel, even if the disaster in The Glass Hotel is far less cataclysmic than the “Georgian Flu” that kills most of humanity in Station Eleven.

Most of the novel’s characters will lose all their savings, and Alkaitis himself, as the omniscient narrator informs the reader early on, will end up in prison. Alkaitis’ scheme is communicable, and he is its carrier. All but one of the novel’s characters are present in the titular hotel, a luxury establishment on a remote spit of Vancouver Island (what its manager describes as “a five-star experience in a place where your cell phone doesn’t work”), during a few fateful days in the spring of 2005. In The Glass Hotel, the significant characters are all connected to a financier, Jonathan Alkaitis-based on Bernie Madoff-whose high-performing assets management firm is in fact a gigantic Ponzi scheme. The characters in that previous novel pick through the detritus of civilization after a pandemic. John Mandel’s fifth novel, The Glass Hotel, just as they did her 2014 post-apocalyptic bestseller, Station Eleven. What Happened With His New Novel?Ĭalamity and its potential to transform us haunt Emily St. He’s One of Twitter’s Most Beloved Writers. What It’s Like to Write a Biography of Your Dead Wife The Book That Crowned Stephen King Is Now a Movie. Slate has relationships with various online retailers.īut note that deals can expire and all prices are subject to change.Īll prices were up to date at the time of publication.