![]() ![]() “‘I was confused by your book,’ a woman in Dallas said. Then we jump again, to a section called “Last Book Tour on Earth,” in which a celebrated author, Olive Llewellyn, makes a long series of publicity stops in 2203, answering the same questions over and over about her famous pandemic novel. ![]() From there we jump to the year 2020 and the story of Mirella, whose husband killed himself after losing everything in a Ponzi scheme. In a forest near Vancouver, he encounters a strange man dressed as a priest with an unplaceable accent. We begin by following a young man across 1912 Canada after he’s been exiled by his family in England. It’s transporting and brilliant and generous, and I haven’t ever read anything quite like it. ![]() "Sea of Tranquility" is full of grandeur, but without even a whiff of grandiosity. ![]()
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