![]() ![]() But knowing some of its context - including a writer whose big break was a book about viral pandemics, now on tour for a new book while an actual pandemic looms, and then rages into being - sharpens this into a deeper and perhaps more personal novel. ![]() Its connection to those previous works is sometimes deeply meaningful, and sometimes only amounts to an Easter egg effect of “hey, that name was in the last book!” This is not to say that Sea of Tranquility doesn’t stand on its own it does. This is Mandel’s sixth novel, building on the themes and premises of Station Eleven (2014) and The Glass Hotel (2020). Climbing back down again can be done with confidence, enmeshed in the surety that soft ground awaits, and everything that was once unknown can now be seen with comfortable perspective and clarity. However, when at last you reach the peak, you find your toughened hands the perfect tools for descent. ![]() Within Emily St John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility, time is a mountain you climb, callouses forming along tired and bloody fingers, giddy from the knowledge a long fall might await you, dread building. ![]()
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