INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the bestselling author of
Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, an exhilarating novel set at
the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events--the
exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious
disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.
"The perfect novel ... Freshly mysterious." --The Washington
Post
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the
northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan
Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall:
Why don't you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater
crime is committed: Alkaitis's billion-dollar business is really nothing
more than a game of smoke and mirrors. When his scheme collapses, it
obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent, who had
been posing as Jonathan's wife, walks away into the night. Years later,
a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a
woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between
ports of call.
In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel
takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the
near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, service in luxury hotels,
and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass
Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion,
ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for
meaning in our lives.
Look for Emily St. John Mandel's bestselling new novel, Sea of
Tranquility!
