A review by riften
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

3.0

I preferred this to her other pandemic novel, partly because …. And here I commit the cardinal sin of ascribing a novel as autofiction ….. it read as a response to Mandel’s sudden explosion into relevancy during Covid-19. And where I found the characters of Station Eleven sort of indistinct, I was charmed by the populace of the 1912 Canadian frontier, and the clumsy timetravelling detective (who has the perfect name for a clumsy timetravelling detective btw).

Unfortunately there’s just something that blocks me from getting on with Mandel’s novels, as much as I want to love them.