Signed First Edition Book Group "Exit Party"

Join us for our October meeting! We'll be discussing "Exit Party" by Emily St. John Mandel, author of "Station Eleven". Wellesley Books is pleased to announce our latest book group: The Signed First Edition Book Group. Our October 2026 meeting will take place on the 19th to discuss Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel. (See below for more about this exciting new book.) How It Works • Sign up for this month’s discussion by buying a ticket through this page and you'll receive a signed first edition. You can also buy in-store or by phone (781-431-1160). • We will meet at the store on the given date to discuss the current selection. • After the meeting, we'll announce our selection for the next month. • Feel free to join in as often as you are able. • Please note that we cannot issue refunds unless you wish to return the book. In this case, the process follows our normal book return policy, which can be found on our website. Lastly, please be aware of our new parking system for the lot behind the store. Parking is free, but you must check in with Vend Park. We recommend doing this before you leave for the event. ABOUT THE BOOK The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman—a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State—searches for answers. Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted. Ari Waker and her roommate pass the gauntlet of bomb-sniffing dogs, the shanty towns, and the Red Cross tents as they walk across Silverlake to a party. The mood is ecstatic inside the apartment, people drink and dance, a woman wears a silver dress, pleated like tinfoil. And then: A shift. A bewildered twin, an uncanny doppelganger stumbles through the crowd and out into the night, and Kareem, the party’s host, vanishes into thin air. As Ari Waker unravels the mystery of this inexplicable night, Emily St. John Mandel unfurls a story that takes us from a future America splintered by civil war to the seaside cliffs of Greece where weapons dealers hide in an elegant resort, and from the domed city of Paris to a colony on the moon. An unforgettable literary feat, Exit Party is a novel about the price of safety, the perils of the surveillance state, a requiem for a world not unlike our own, and a breathtaking story of resilience in the face of cataclysmic change.