Sea of Tranquility: A Novel

"World builder is a phrase that’s rightly used to describe Emily Mandel’s immersive powers as a novelist. I didn’t just read Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel or Mandel’s latest, Sea of Tranquility. I lived in those novels. In Sea of Tranquility, Mandel summons up not one, but three fully realized worlds in three time periods. A ghostly violin playing in a vast forest, a hard-boiled detective who lives in a moon colony called the Night City and a virus that wipes out most of Earth’s population are some of the elements that give this novel its eerie luster."