Emily St. John Mandel did not attend Oxford or Yale. She was homeschooled. That’s because she grew up on the edge of the world, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. One day she went to the big city: Toronto. She studied dance, found a job and began writing. Station Eleven (2014), her first science fiction novel after three thrillers, propelled her to the top of the list of authors to follow.
During her imprisonment, she was confined to her home in New York and again tried to escape as far as possible. The result is a brilliant novel, The Sea of Tranquility, in which the characters travel back in time while transporting themselves to the beginning of the 20th century.e Century, following in the footsteps of an ancestor who landed in both Canada and the moon and settled human colonies there in the 22nd century. A book with limitless imagination, and that
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