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Sea of Tranquility: A novel

byEmily St. John Mandel

Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility follows its characters through pressures that expose the distance between what a family appears to be and what it conceals. Sea of Tranquility combines character, setting, dialogue, and narrative tension, allowing the evidence to complicate easy judgments and familiar explanations. Seen through the lens of fiction, Sea of Tranquility explains not only what happened, but why competing interpretations still matter. By the end, the novel emerges as a layered story of competing motives, unintended results, and choices made under pressure.

Publisher

Knopf

Publication date

Apr 19, 2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

272

ISBN

9780593321447