If ‘Station Eleven’ and ‘The Glass Hotel’ Had a Child

Pandemics, Time Travel, and Moon Colonies: Reviewing Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Sea of Tranquility’

Like finding so many authors over one’s reading life, encountering Emily St. John Mandel was accidental for me. I was scrolling through Scribd in 2018 or 2019 and ran into Station Eleven, a National Book Award finalist and now an acclaimed series on HBO as well. Intrigued, I gave it a whirl.

I’ve recommended it a hundred times since then; I even bought a…