Sea of Tranquility

A long-awaited new book from the author of “The Glass Hotel” and “Station Eleven.”

A New York Times bestseller.

Emily St. John Mandel returns with a novel about art, time travel, love, and the plague—taking the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the Moon five hundred years later, telling the story of humanity across centuries and dimensions in the spirit of David Mitchell and his “Cloud Atlas.”

1912. Seventeen-year-old Edwin St. Andrew argues with his father during dinner, then flees to Canada.

1994. Twelve-year-old Vincent films a mysterious video in a forest near her home.

2020. After Vincent dies, her brother—now a composer—shows the video during his concert.

2203. Writer Olivia Llewelyn leaves her husband and daughter at home in a second lunar colony to go to Earth for a book tour—she’s written a novel about the pandemic.

To find out how these people are connected and why they hear the same violin sounds, detective Gasperi-Jac Roberts must embark on a journey through time. But what if their reality is a simulation?

A melancholic fable about the destruction of the familiar world, time travel, and loneliness. A multi-layered novel from Emily St. John Mandel in the spirit of David Mitchell’s “Cloud Atlas.”