If you've read Station Eleven you'll know what a brilliant writer Emily St John Mandel is. In her new novel she seamlessly manages to navigate a story stretching from the Canadian wilderness in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon 300 years later. Yet this epic story of time travel also captures the reality and concerns of our current moment. How does she do it?
When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in time, he uncovers a series of lives upended. Will he choose to intervene and in doing so risk disrupting the time-line of the universe?
Sea of Tranquility investigates the idea of parallel worlds and possibilities. Perceptive and compelling, it is a story about art, love, and what we must do to survive. I loved it!
— Olivia