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Sea of Tranquility: A novel
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • 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 five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.
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This book lives rent free in my mind, and it inspired me to reread The Glass Hotel. I love a book written out of order or with multiple narrators whose perspectives we have to balance. St. John Mandel places scenes so familiar to us we can inhabit them inside of fantastic plots that remain with you in scenes as vivid as Toni Morrison’s.
A quiet, poignant, meditative book. I'm amazed at what the author accomplishes in under 300 pages. She pulls together deft, evocative of sketches of 4 characters across 4 time periods while also exploring deeper themes including family, purpose and the meaning of reality.
I didn't love it quite as much as Station Eleven but I still loved it!
Emily St. John Mandel is one of my favorite writers and this may be her best book yet. It’s emotionally compelling and explores our connections throughout time. Hauntingly and beautifully written as always.
I struggled with this book. I think there was too much twisted together and it didn’t quite mesh the way she hoped it would.
i think my issue with mandel's books is that the characters feel so hollow. mostly just enjoyed the first chunk of the novel with the first character from 1912, the only one i felt any depth to. conceptually this was an interesting sci-fi/dystopian type novel, as are her other books, but aside from the creativity of the story, it's just difficult for me to engage with the stakes of most of her characters, here and in her other books.
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