Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel | Expected publication April 5, 2022 | 272 pages | Goodreads
REVIEW
I loved Station Eleven and was eager to get my hands in this book by the same author. This novel takes place in different times periods but has a character in common in every timeline, how? time travel!
I absolutely enjoyed the story and there are easter eggs from Station Eleven which I didn’t expect but was ecstatic to find. Just like her previous works, this book is beautifully crafted with engaging characters and an interesting plot.
The book was written during the pandemic and the author did a great job portraying the feelings of what is like to live through these events and uncertain times.
Overall, I enjoyed the novel and highly recommend.
PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTION
The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal–an experience that shocks him to his core.
Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She’s traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive’s bestselling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him.
When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.
A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.
BOOK SOURCE AND FORMAT
ARC, ebook via Edelweiss