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Mendell Station
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Description
A tender debut that follows a woman who, after her best friend's death, loses her faith and quits her job to join the postal service, quickly becoming an 'essential worker' as the city shuts down.
It's January 2020, and Miriam is already getting a sense that the world might be ending. First, she learns that her best friend, Esther, has died. Then her faith in God-in everything, really-follows suit. Her job teaching Scripture at a private Christian school suddenly seems untenable, so she quits. Thankfully, the postal service is hiring.
While Miriam finds comfort in her route, the mail truck can hardly outpace the memory of her lost friend and eroded faith. She finds herself composing letters to Esther that she will never deliver, reflecting on their shared childhoods and deep understanding of each other's difficult families.
Mendell Station depicts one woman's deliverance through the peculiar rhythms of work, and the beauty found in small details and gestures, those quotidian labors of love.
Product details
| Published | Jul 22 2025 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 208 |
| ISBN | 9781639736188 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Dimensions | 8 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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With astonishing dynamism and empathy, JB Hwang's Mendell Station accomplishes a great deal over its humble page count, painting a moving flash memory about the earliest days of the covid-19 pandemic, imbued with the sometimes subtle, sometimes overwhelming grief that often accompanies the human experience of pain that can't be fully understood.
Jinwoo Chong, author of I LEAVE IT UP TO YOU and FLUX



















