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Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel

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Oct 15, 2022 Carolyn rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2022, futuristic, literary, favourite-books, time-travel, speculative

An extraordinary book in many ways, Emily St John Mandel transports us through time from early twentieth century America through five centuries to a colony on the moon. The novel starts slowly, leading us to the place where young Englishman, Edwin St Andrew observed a strange phenomenon in the forest at Caiette on Vancouver Island.

This same phenomenon will be observed by others across the next five centuries. A musician will use a video of it made in 1994 by his sister Vincent, in his compositi ...more

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Apr 13, 2022 Joy D rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: north-america, xaubk, favorite-authors, canada, short-stories, science-fiction, time-travel, disease

“This is the strange lesson of living in a pandemic: life can be tranquil in the face of death.”

Four characters are living hundreds of years apart. Edwin St. Andrew moves from England to Canada in 1912, prior to the influenza pandemic of 1918. Mirella is living in early 2020 in New York, when COVID-19 reached the US. Olive Llewellyn, author of an apocalyptic novel, was born on one of the moon colonies. She is living on earth in 2203 and touring in support of her novel, when a new SARS pandemic b ...more

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Apr 28, 2024 Jelena rated it liked it

2.5 stars - lots of interesting and thought provoking topics this touches on, but even though it’s well written, the story just didn’t grip me. Not my vibe

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