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Emily St. John Mandel’s chilling new novel Exit Party imagines two terrifying futures for America—one shattered by civil war, the other choked by totalitarian surveillance—both eerily foreshadowing our current moment. Written before today’s headlines became unavoidable, Mandel found herself racing to keep pace with reality as her fiction blurred into the news. She explores the “counter life,” where societies rebuild or collapse, and warns of AI’s threat to writers’ authenticity. Yet even in darkness, she finds hope: that humanity can rise, reform, and choose better. Not a prophet, but a sharp-eyed witness, Mandel turns dread into narrative—and invites us to believe in resilience.
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