Mostly about a fictionalized Bernie Madoff and his Ponzi scheme, but also hit a lot of the same themes and ideas as Station Eleven; people fleeing a collapsing world, itinerant survivors rebuilding after catastrophe, forgotten art pieces connecting seemingly unrelated strangers, fleets of immobilized cargo vessels, Canada and British Columbia, and told in a non-linear style. The Glass Hotel is also about all the whys and ways that people compromise on their ethics and ideals. In many ways, The Glass Hotel is a sadder book than Station Eleven, even though it doesn't have a pandemic killing most of the people of the world. It goes back to what I said about the earlier book: it's easier to imagine a happy ending in a world catastrophically transformed than in one resembling our own. You can really tell that Mandell became really obsessed with the Bernie Madoff story and with the shipping industry. I could totally tell that Mandel read 90% of Everything before or during writing this book, even before the acknowledgements page. I could definitely re-read this book.