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\nBook Summary:
\nFrom t he award-winning author of \;Station Eleven\, an exhilarating novel se t at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events&ndash\; a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woma n from a ship at sea.
\nVincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette\ , a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis\, a hooded figure scrawls a message on t he lobby&rsquo\;s glass wall: \;Why don&rsquo\;t you swallow broken gl ass. High above Manhattan\, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis is runn ing an international Ponzi scheme\, moving imaginary sums of money through clients&rsquo\; accounts. When the financial empire collapses\, it oblite rates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent\, who had been posi ng as Jonathan&rsquo\;s wife\, walks away into the night. Years later\, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call.
\nIn this captivating story of crisis and survival\, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds fo r the near-homeless\, underground electronica clubs\, the business of inte rnational shipping\, service in luxury hotels\, and life in a federal pris on. Rife with unexpected beauty\, \;The Glass Hotel \;is a captiva ting portrait of greed and guilt\, love and delusion\, ghosts and unintend ed consequences\, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives .
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