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Emily St. John Mandel will read from her new novel Exit Party, followed by an on-stage conversation led by a local author/journalist. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing. The event is presented as part of the 2026/2027 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. 

Award-winning author of the bestseller Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel comes to Houston to share her new breathtaking novel Exit Party, which unfurls a story that takes us from a future America splintered by civil war to the seaside cliffs of Greece where weapons dealers hide in an elegant resort, and from the domed city of Paris to a colony on the moon. Library Journal notes in a starred review, “Mandel always writes with clarity and precision. Her perceptive new dystopian novel explores what is lost in a rush to safety; it’s a hymn to what falls when the center doesn’t hold.” Kirkus Reviews calls it Mandel’s “best novel since Station Eleven . . . Both a thrilling read and a virtuoso demonstration of the moral and philosophical possibilities of speculative fiction.”

Mandel is the author of seven novels, including Sea of Tranquility, which has been translated into 25 languages and was selected by President Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of 2022. Station Eleven was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and aired as a limited series on HBO Max.