It was also named one of Times must-read books of 2020 and made CBC Bookss best fiction of the year list. Words scrawled on a window when I was thirteen years old. The Glass Hotel was a finalist for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize. It was owned by super wealthy Jonathan Alkaitis and part of the story was about his Ponzi scheme but also was about his ‘wife’ Vincent who disappeared from the deck. The 5 star luxury Glass Hotel was in Caiette, a small and remote part of Vancouver Island. Begin at the end: plummeting down the side of the ship in the storm’s wild darkness, breath gone with the shock of falling, my camera flying away through the rain- John Mandel starts with what appears to be a scene of Vincent’s final moments after falling off a ship.
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