Sea of Tranquility

this is Emily St. John Mandel writing pandemic autofiction that is also an homage to Cloud Atlas and as far as i'm concerned it's perfect

it is definitely a puzzle box and it has a LOT of metatextual references to Station Eleven and the rest of her oeuvre (mainly The Glass Hotel but it's clear this all takes place in the same universe) sooooooo if that sounds unbearably pretentious you probably won't like it, but for me, after these last few years, it touched me to the core and was beautiful and thought-provoking and very meaningful <3