"Huh? Is the book missing pages?" It just ended.' " This and other annoyances from Olive's book tour seem to humorously reflect Mandel's own experience, but no one will be making a similar complaint about her latest-a complicated and mysterious puzzle concerning the nature of reality solved perfectly, all loose ends connected. 'There were all these strands, narratively speaking, all these characters, and I felt like I was waiting for them to connect, but they didn't, ultimately.
" 'I was so confused by your book,' a woman in Dallas said. (These last two are Vincent and Paul Smith, characters from Mandel's last book, The Glass Hotel.) In 2203, author Olive Llewellyn has left her husband and daughter at home on the moon's Colony Two to travel to Earth for a book tour to promote her pandemic novel, Marienbad (reminiscent of Mandel's own bestselling Station Eleven). In 1994, a young girl makes a video in the woods near her home in 2020, after her death, her composer brother screens it during a concert. Andrew makes a rude comment at dinner and is sent in disgrace to live in Canada. In 1912, at an estate in the British countryside, 18-year-old Edwin St.
Characters living centuries apart all have the same brief, puzzling experience-what does this mean about the nature of time?
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