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Tuesday night, author Emily St. John Mandel made a return appearance to Brilliant Books, Traverse City, Mich. In anticipation of her appearance, the store set up a "Museum of Civilization" display--a key part of the plot of Mandel's post-apocalyptic Station Eleven (Random House).
Brilliant Books has long been a supporter of the author. "We read and loved The Singer's Gun," explained owner Peter Makin. "It was a book by a then unknown author from a small publisher (Unbridled Books). We invited Emily on the strength of that book, and she appeared at our Suttons Bay store in July 2010. We pitched it to other bookstores and campaigned for it during the following year's Indie Booksellers Choice Awards, which I'm happy to say, it won." Mandel also visited Brilliant Books in 2012 as part of her tour for The Lola Quartet, and Makin even advised Mandel on creating a realistic poker sequence for her story.