It's been a long time since I read a book nonstop in one day, but I read Sea of Tranquility in one breathless gulp. ESJM fans: I think this is the book we've been waiting for! It spans centuries: from settlers in British Columbia in 1912 until the time traveling moon colonies of the 2400s. We revisit Vincent from Mandel's earlier novel, The Glass Hotel, as we travel through time to understand a space/time glitch that the Time Institute discovered.

This book is about so much. What stood out the most to me was Mandel's focus on Olive Llewellyn, a pandemic author from the 2200s. Even in the 2200s, Olive still gets questions like, who's watching your kid while you're here? Why would you choose to be away from your family to do this work?, etc. It made me wonder if the sections on Olive were semi-autobiographical, given that she was doing promotional tours as her 2014 pandemic novel, Station Eleven, was made into an HBO max series.

After I finished this book, I realized I only need to read one more book to become a Mandel completist. I'm anxiously awaiting that book through Libby right now!