Author
Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel writes literary fiction and science fiction. We've read and reviewed 3 of Emily St. John Mandel's books, including Exit Party and Sea of Tranquility, each scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
Exit Party
by Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel's Exit Party is a literary science fiction novel about a 2031 Los Angeles party where the host disappears and a bewildered double wanders out of the crowd. It travels from a splintered America to Greece, Paris and the moon, and finds a surprising amount of hope along the way.
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.