Sea of Tranquility

Mind-blowing ― Washington Post

Mandel remains an instant-buy writer ― Glamour

Wonderfully inventive . . . genuinely impressive, subtle and nuanced . . . a story with love and longing for connection at its heart, moving and thought-provoking in equal measure ― Big Issue

An ambitious time-travelling panorama of pandemics and parallel worlds ― Guardian

A story like a tone poem, uncannily lovely and profound ― EW

A trippy, wistful story ― Wired

An inventive, haunting, and tender time-travel story that underscores the importance and resilience of art ― Vulture

Poignant, ingeniously constructed and deeply absorbing ― NPR

Sensational . . . masterfully plotted and deeply moving ― Esquire

Emily St. John Mandel, who, like an ingenious origami artist, seems determined with each new work to add yet another fold to our perception of what is real and one further twist to what we think of as time . . . Transcendent ― Wall Street Journal

Mandel illustrates how hope and humanity are flames that can never be fully extinguished ― Elle

World builder is a phrase that's rightly used to describe Emily Mandel's immersive powers as a novelist. I didn't just read Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel or Sea of Tranquility. I lived in those novels -- Maureen Corrigan ― NPR

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