Sea of Tranquility

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER ΓÇó The award-winning,best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of arttime travelloveand plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years laterunfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York TimesNPRGoodReads ΓÇ£One of [MandelΓÇÖs] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöThe New York Times Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamshipexiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forestspellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wildernessand suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminalΓÇöan experience that shocks him to his core. Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. SheΓÇÖs traveling all over Earthbut her home is the second moon colonya place of white stonespired towersand artificial beauty. Within the text of OliveΓÇÖs best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him. When Gaspery-Jacques Robertsa detective in the black-skied Night Cityis hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wildernesshe uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madnessa writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earthand a childhood friend from the Night City wholike Gaspery himselfhas glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe. A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playfulSea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.