![]() ![]() The Sea of Tranquility storyline begins in 1912 with the third son of a British family who is shipped off to Canada. ![]() Sea of Tranquility both reflects our current crisis of a pandemic and revisits moments and characters from Mandel’s preceding two books. Research tells me that this sixth Mandel novel is part sequel part standalone and continues Mandel’s theme of tying together vignettes of different people in different times. The first page of each chapter begins halfway down the page and not all pages are numbered. Most of the chapters in the last segment, Anomaly, are quite brief. Each section comprises chapters, some of which are no more than one or two paragraphs. ![]() The book is set out with a Table of Contents showing eight segments indicating that their contents cover events or storylines in several diverse time periods. John Mandel, that I have read, and I found it to be quite an unusual experience. Sea of Tranquility is the first work of Canadian novelist and essayist, Emily St. ![]()
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