Sea of Tranquility

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With a novel about art, time, love, and pestilence that transports the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a shadowy moon colony three centuries later, the award-winning and best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel makes a triumphant comeback. This book tells the tale of humanity across ages and geographical boundaries.

After a poorly thought-out tirade at a dinner party, Edwin St. Andrew, at eighteen, is banished from polite society and travels across the Atlantic by steamer. He is taken aback by the sound of a violin resonating in an airship terminal as he enters the forest, mesmerized by the beauty of the Canadian countryside.

Two centuries later, Olive Llewellyn, a well-known author, is traveling for her books. She travels the whole planet, but the second moon colony—a land of white stone, spired buildings, and manufactured beauty—is her home. A peculiar scene appears in Olive's best-selling pandemic novel: a guy in an airship terminal's reverberating hallway plays his violin for change as the surrounding forest's trees climb above him.

A writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, an exiled son of an earl driven mad, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe are just a few of the lives upended by the anomaly that Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, finds himself investigating.

Sea of Tranquility, a book of time travel and metaphysics, is a masterful performance that is as personal and compassionate as it is intellectually funny, perfectly capturing the reality of our present moment.