Author
Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel writes literary fiction and dystopian. We've read and reviewed 2 of Emily St. John Mandel's books, including Sea of Tranquility and Station Eleven, each scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven is a post-pandemic literary novel less interested in collapse than in what survives it. Fifteen years after a flu empties the world, a troupe of actors and musicians walks the ruined Great Lakes performing Shakespeare. Emily St. John Mandel writes elegy more than action, for readers who want meaning over menace.
Sea of Tranquility
by Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility runs 274 pages and covers five hundred years, from a disgraced Englishman in the 1912 Canadian woods to a detective working a moon colony's night city. Underneath the time travel it is a novel about regret, hope, and the meaning we hand our own lives.