Thanks to A.A. Knopf for the free advance copy of this book.

Vincent is the bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a luxury hotel on a remote island in British Columbia. She's been looking for a way out of this small town, and one night when the hotel's owner, financier Jonathan Alkaitis, slips her his number, her life changes drastically and a chain of events affecting a wide network of people is set off.

THE GLASS HOTEL weaves together the stories of many people across many cities, sliding back and forth in time from the rural childhood Vincent and her troubled brother Paul experienced to offices high above Manhattan as a Ponzi scheme collapses.

Mandel creates a world that feels shrouded in fog, like reality is just out of focus. Many characters ruminate on the idea of parallel universes and potential alternate paths for their lives, some of them finding they lose track of which reality is true. And the book's universe shifts a bit for the reader, too, as a few characters from STATION ELEVEN also appear - with slightly altered lives - in THE GLASS HOTEL, adding further to the exploration of a world of sliding doors. It's an intimate yet wide-ranging meditation on how each action we take, small or large, causes us to cross paths (or not) with others, unknowingly taking our own futures into our hands each day.