

“I’m very interested in group dynamics,” Mandel says. A study of the constellation of people adjacent to and implicated in a massive Ponzi scheme, the book also features a handful of characters familiar to those acquainted with Mandel’s previous work: the shipping executives Leon Prevant and Miranda Carroll, from Station Eleven the fraudulent investor Jonathan Alkaitis, from The Lola Quartet.


John Mandel released her fifth novel, The Glass Hotel. In March 2020-a period that feels like it could be either an eon ago, or yesterday, or both-the author Emily St.
