Oct 30, 2026 · 34 min · 13 segments
The October GRETAGRAM book club selection is Emily St. John Mandel’s Exit Party, a novel about entanglement, reinvention, and life after collapse…
She gets these feelings like things are going to happen or she knows that something's going to be the last thing she does or it's going to be the last coffee she has in this town or whatever.
She has a partner who she's like not in love with, really, but like they take care of each other.
But she thinks they might break up and then she has a feeling that he's going to die and she just lets him go out and leave, even though she could have said like, no, don't go.
It's like just because she has these premonitions doesn't mean like we never get the sense that she can change them.
Like, does that change fate? Does it change just their fate? Like, would, you know, the building collapse on top of him instead if he hadn't died down by the water? Like, right.
I think partly what helps with being able to justify her behaviors is that it's clear that she is making the choices she needs to make just to be able to survive.
She gets these feelings like things are going to happen or she knows that something's going to be the last thing she does or it's going to be the last coffee she has in this town or whatever.
She has a partner who she's like not in love with, really, but like they take care of each other.
But she thinks they might break up and then she has a feeling that he's going to die and she just lets him go out and leave, even though she could have said like, no, don't go.
It's like just because she has these premonitions doesn't mean like we never get the sense that she can change them.
Like, does that change fate? Does it change just their fate? Like, would, you know, the building collapse on top of him instead if he hadn't died down by the water? Like, right.
I think partly what helps with being able to justify her behaviors is that it's clear that she is making the choices she needs to make just to be able to survive.
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