I’ll find myself rereading the rapturous praise on the cover, trying to coax myself ... in Emily St. John Mandel’s latest novel, "Sea of Tranquility" (Knopf, 272 pp., ...

In perfect Mandelian fashion, she harnessed the very specific combination of fear, malaise, and existential crisis that was 2020 into a beautiful new novel — meet Sea of Tranquility. Coming ...

There is a small moment in Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel, “Sea of Tranquility,” that you might miss: A man recalls, from his childhood, a moment when his mother glanced at a photo of the ...

This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Sea of Tranquility opens on a would-be British colonizer named Edwin St. John St. Andrew as he arrives in Canada in 1912. He wants to redefine ...

“The Sea of Tranquility” offers a multiverse in which characters from “The Glass Hotel” (2020) reappear and are given new storylines. Mandel did something similar in “The Glass Hotel ...

By comparison, the storylines of those two novels were straightforward. Sea of Tranquility zips through space and time, though it is primarily set in four main periods: the earlier 20th century (1912) ...

In the book Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, the third-party narrator reveals all the connections between the lives of the characters. Most science fiction novels are not subtle. But, ...

When things get grim, she hatches a plan to save the island. By turns lyrical, funny, and mordant, Sea of Tranquility never takes itself too seriously. If the feel-good ending is a touch too ...