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Wednesday, October 21, 2026

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Exit Party

Emily St. John Mandel

4.5/ 5 · Outstanding

Emily St. John Mandel's Exit Party is a literary science fiction novel about a 2031 Los Angeles party where the host disappears and a bewildered double wanders out of the crowd. It travels from a splintered America to Greece, Paris and the moon, and finds a surprising amount of hope along the way.

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