The Booksellers Association has announced The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel as its Fiction Book of the Month for August.  

From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel weaves together the stories of Vincent, a young bartender who begins a relationship with a wealthy financier, the collapse of the businessman’s Ponzi scheme, and Vincent’s disappearance from a container ship thirteen years later. Moving between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of remote British Columbia, The Glass Hotel explores greed, delusion, money and moral compromise. The Glass Hotel is published by Picador and is available in bookshops now.
 
Author Emily St. John Mandel said, “"I am deeply grateful for this honour. Independent bookstores are among my favourite spaces in the world—I think of them as little oases of civilization and calm—and I feel immense gratitude toward independent booksellers, who championed my books long before anyone else did." 

Sharon Benton, Marketing Manager, Booksellers Association said, “We are delighted that this beautifully written and compelling novel by Emily St. John Mandel has been chosen as the Fiction Book of the Month for August. We are sure that booksellers will get behind this title and enjoy recommending it to their customers.”
 
Independent bookshops around the UK and Ireland will be promoting The Glass Hotel throughout August. The Booksellers Association will also support the promotion of the Fiction Book of the Month through social media and the provision of promotional material.
 
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