Sea of Tranquility

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The award-winning author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel presents a novel that spans from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a moon colony three centuries later, exploring themes of art, time, love, and plague. Eighteen-year-old Edwin St. Andrew, exiled from society after a dinner party outburst, embarks on a transatlantic journey. Captivated by the Canadian wilderness, he is stunned by the sound of a violin echoing in an airship terminal. Fast forward two centuries, and renowned writer Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour across Earth, though her true home is a moon colony characterized by its artificial beauty. Within her best-selling pandemic novel lies a peculiar passage about a man playing the violin in a terminal surrounded by trees. Meanwhile, detective Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, operating in the shadowy Night City, is tasked with investigating an anomaly in North America. His inquiry reveals disrupted lives: an earl's exiled son descending into madness, a writer stranded during a pandemic, and a childhood friend who, like Gaspery, sees a chance to alter the universe's timeline. This novel intricately weaves time travel and metaphysics, capturing the essence of our contemporary reality with both tenderness and intellectual depth.