Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel: Content Warnings

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Publication Date: April 2022

Synopsis:

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal–an experience that shocks him to his core.

Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She’s traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive’s best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him.

When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.


What To Expect:

Sea of Tranquility is a time traveling story told across multiple time lines that explores humanity and the concept of colonization and epidemics.


Content Warnings:

Language: None

Sexual Content: None

Violence: Mild – Reference to gun shooting and victim but not graphic

Substance Use: None

Prejudices: Heavy – Colonization both historical and future

Religious Themes: None

Other Topics: Heavy – Pandemic/epidemic, death/suicide, grief, isolation (quarantine)


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