Station Eleven

While making these, I thought a lot about this unforgettable book, one of my favorites. This story takes place before and after a flu pandemic that eliminates 99% of the world’s population, and civilization as we know it.

Sounds grim, but this post-apocalyptic novel is really about finding love, friendship, hope, spirituality, connection and purpose in the wake of the unthinkable. Also about appreciating the technology and modern conveniences we often think isolate us, but in many ways bring us closer. Most of all it’s about humanity, and the ways it changes a lot, but not really so much, when everything around it collapses.

Late in the story, one survivor asks another, “Do you remember chocolate-chip cookies?” And his friend responds, “I dream of chocolate-chip cookies. Don’t torture me.”

Here are mine. What would you miss? Go have some today.