![]() ![]() ![]() Given what her new book is about, Mandel herself appears to be considering some of the same questions, and “Sea of Tranquility” amounts to not so much a novel as an extended exercise in experimental thinking. In the book, Olive begins to question the nature of reality - as in, are we in some sort of simulation, or maybe an alternate universe of some kind? Because reality seems too peculiar, and filled with too many coincidences, to be exactly convincing. ![]() John Mandel’s new novel, “Sea of Tranquility,” is a novelist, Olive Llewellyn, who, like Mandel, was a talented but obscure mid-list author when she published a hugely successful book about a plague a few years before a real plague arrived, and who, after the plague’s arrival, became even more well known for having published an unsettlingly prescient novel. One of the principal players in Canadian author Emily St. ![]()
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