Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandela ****

The story begins in Toronto at the Elgin Theater, where King Lear is being performed the evening a terrible virus called the Georgia Flu begins to wipe out civilization as we know it. Twenty years later a group of survivors called The Travelling Symphony wanders through Michigan and Ontario performing Shakespeare's plays in a completely altered world. The story goes forward and back in time, but is still easy to follow, as we learn how the lives of the main characters are inter- connected.

Easy to read and interesting approach- sort of a combination of literary fiction and science fiction. The characters are all human, too- no monsters or space ships visiting from another galaxy. We get a pretty good glimpse of what our world could look like in the future, and how we might deal with the changes.