Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass spectacle on a beautiful island in British Columbia. The owner of the hotel, Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and slips Vincent his card—this encounter marks the beginning of their life together. On that very same day, Vincent's troubled half-brother, Paul, leaves a cryptic and disturbing message on one of the hotel's window: "Why don't you swallow broken glass." A shipping executive for Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from where he is perched in the hotel bar and it shakes him to his core. Mysteriously, Vincent vanishes from from the deck of one of Neptune-Avramidis' ships thirteen years later. How did she fall overboard? Does it have anything to do with being Alkaitis' trophy wife?
This is a story about wealth, greed, corruption, unintended consequences, and how the ghosts of the past always find you.
The audiobook is spectacular and Dylan Moore was the perfect casting choice.
There is a gentleness to St. John Mandel's beautiful writing and I was utterly captivated. There are so many subtle nuances and layers to this spider's web of a novel. This book is much more than a story about a Ponzi scheme. She slowly pulls back the proverbial curtain to reveal her characters struggles and juxtaposes their life choices against what could have been. It is a ghost story of sorts—the characters are haunted by themselves as much as Alkaitis is haunted by the ghosts of his victims.
Mesmerizing and haunting, The Glass Hotel is an understated and unexpected gift.
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EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL is the author of five novels. The bestselling Station Eleven was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, it has also been translated into thirty-two languages.
St. John Mandel lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
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