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Violence
Barely any
No significant violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
No significant sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Pandemic anxiety; existential themes about the nature of simulation reality; gently rather than disturbingly handled
What this book is about
Three disparate storylines converge on a single moment: Edwin St. Andrew, exiled to Vancouver Island in 1912; Olive Llewellyn, a novelist in 2203 on her last book tour before a pandemic; and Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective from a lunar colony investigating an anomaly that appears across centuries. Mandel's short, elegant novel—companion to Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel—meditates on time, art, pandemics, and the strange comfort of believing that everything that has happened will always have happened.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Pandemic themes may resonate personally
Philosophical questions about the nature of reality
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