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How novelist Emily St. John Mandel built ‘Exit Party’ out of a battered LA
The novel opens with a future Echo Park party and uses mysterious events to explore a battered Los Angeles, Mandel said.
- Author John Mandel released the novel "Exit Party," which begins 5 years in the future at a party in Echo Park.
- Mysterious events at the gathering set the story in motion, exploring themes of crime and resilience within a near-future setting.
- Political anxieties influenced the story, as the author aimed to capture a "chaotic" world for those living within it during times of turmoil.
- Classifying the book as literary fiction, the writer notes the story remains "resistant to the elevator" tropes common in the genre.
- The release follows acclaimed previous works, further cementing a reputation for blending imaginative storytelling with serious fiction in the literary world.
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How novelist Emily St. John Mandel built ‘Exit Party’ out of a battered LA
Emily St. John Mandel’s brilliant new novel “Exit Party” begins five years in the future at a party in L.A.’s Echo Park neighborhood where a series of mysterious, hard-to-explain events set the story in motion. But before we begin to…
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