One of the novel’s most affecting sections unfolds as she realizes her suspicions about a coming virus were correct she cancels the rest of her book tour and heads home, weeping along the way, stripping off her likely contaminated clothes on the sidewalk.Īt the farthest edge of “Sea of Tranquility’s” time frame, it’s the turn of the 25th century, Gaspery’s native “present.” He is looking for new employment, and his sister Zoey works for the mysterious and powerful Time Institute. Mandel was virtually hailed as a prophet - a designation she disliked - after her pandemic-dystopian 2014 bestseller, “ Station Eleven,” was adapted into a hit HBO Max miniseries just in time for COVID-19. The parallel to Mandel herself, who is also the married mother of a young daughter, has to be intentional. Llewellyn, in another section, is haunted by the success of “Marienbad,” a dystopian novel she wrote on the brink of an actual pandemic. Novelist Olive Llewellyn included a character named Gaspery in her smash-hit bestseller “Marienbad,” which was released in the 23rd century. He may be mysteriously connected to someone who lived many years ago, or at least to her imagination. This man, Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, has private fixations of his own. Four centuries from now, their family lives on Colony One, a human-engineered city with a manufactured river but no seas or oceans. 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 “Earth Ocean” while stirring soup. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.
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