Louise Erdrich, Jodi Picoult, and Gary Shteyngart already have novels in the stores, and Roddy Doyle has a COVID-themed story collection coming soon
A long-time patron of a Minneapolis bookstore dies, and a few days later the woman’s ghost begins haunting the store. Using that spooky circumstance as the foundation for her novel, Erdrich spins a tale that spans the strange year that included not only the pandemic but also the murder of George Floyd, a year that left many of us feeling haunted by a loss of freedom, a loss of loved ones, and in many cases a loss of hope. Miraculously, Erdrich’s pandemic ghost story successfully, i.e.
Which is the opposite of his characters’ predicaments. All of them have a tough time—an enjoyably tough time from a reader’s point of view—making do. The set up: an author, the ever anxious, always overextended Senderovsky has invited his oldest friends to ride out the pandemic at his Hudson Valley country house with him and his shrink wife and very smart, very neurotic, Korean-boy-band-obsessed 8-year-old daughter .
This being a comedy of manners, hijinks do ensue, couples pair off and then unpair, or repair. The mood is mostly that of restoration farce or comic opera, although things do turn darker as the plot resolves—this is the Chekhovian influence, although best to note here that Shteyngart is funnier than Chekhov if maybe a little less compassionate and his characters a little more manipulated and a little less fully imagined.
There are two main plot devices tying these lives together across space and time. One is a graphic novel, “Station Eleven,” created by the ex-wife of a movie star who drops dead of a heart attack while performing the title role inon a Toronto stage in the book’s opening scene.
But the real action comes when the characters and the reader try to make the manifold connections in the web that Mandel has woven across space and time: between the actor who dies and his wives and his son and between the two children who inherit copies ofand how each interprets the graphic novel’s story and how that story bends their trajectories.
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