Sea of Tranquility

Strange, ambitious, nuanced and entirely wonderful, Sea is exceptional in the way Station Eleven is exceptional. It has big ideas told through small moments and beautiful, interpersonal stories. The characters are often not relatable and also, entirely relatable. I loved it. Mandel is in an elite trio of young women writers - along with Karen Russell and Lauren Groff - that write intricate and singularly unique stories that make them auto-buy authors for me. I need to get back to Glass Hotel, which got pushed to the side of my TBR for reasons I can no longer remember!