Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
An eclectic assortment of people encounter a time traveller who must resist the pull to change the past and the future. The cast includes a British exile on the West Coast of Canada in the early 1900s, the author of a bestselling novel about a fictional pandemic who embarks on a galaxy-spanning book tour during the outbreak of an actual pandemic, a resident of a moon colony almost 300 years in the future, and a lonely girl who films an old-growth forest and experiences a disruption in the recording.
- Last updated: September 8, 2023
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“Mandel combines her shrewd observation of events in the present moment with a lively imagination”
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