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Wheelock Book Club
March 1, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Join the Wheelock Book Club for a discussion of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel.
About the book:
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core.
Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She’s traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive’s bestselling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him.
A novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.
Copies of Sea of Tranquility are available in multiple formats. Please call the library for assistance with locating or reserving a copy, 253-280-2800. Copies are also available at Wheelock while they last.