The Sea of Tranquility was a beautiful and unique book that I couldn’t put down. My husband, Ben, and I are currently watching Station Eleven, but Sea of Tranquility was my first novel by Emily St. John Mandel. It takes place during four different time frames and involves time travel. I loved it.
The novel starts with the younger son from an aristocratic
family being shipped to Canada in 1912 because he has “radical” opinions that
embarrass the family. He has a strange
experience in the woods on Vancouver Island. In 2020, a concert is taking place where
footage is displayed that was taped in the same woods in 1994 and a strange
event occurred. In 2203, Olive Llewellyn
is on a book tour on Earth. She is a
resident of the second moon colony.
While at an airport, she has a moment where she hears music, sees trees,
and has a strange experience. Is this a glitch? In 2401,
Gaspery-Jacques Roberts is a security guard at a hotel on the first moon colony. His sister and old friend work for the Time Institute. He gets a job there and is soon an operative
traveling through time to try to solve the question of these strange
disturbances. What are these glitches?
The writing of this novel was beautiful. It started somewhat slow with different
pieces of the story that seemed unrelated.
Then the pieces finally started to come together. I was fascinated. There were some deep thoughts about life and
reality. It is a short book and I read
it quickly.
Favorite Quotes:
“Illness frightens us because it’s chaotic. There’s an awful randomness about it.”
“I’ve been thinking a great deal about time and motion
lately, about being a still point in a ceaseless rush.”
Overall, Sea of Tranquility is a book I can’t stop
thinking about. It’s a beautiful novel
with an intriguing story.
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