The Book Club meets on the third Tuesday of the month at 1:00 pm. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, February 18th at 1:00pm. This month's selection is Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St. John Mandel.
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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 best-selling 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.
When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.
A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.
Club Selections for 2024-25
The Piano Maker, by Kurt Palka (September)
The Maid, by Nita Prose (October)
Bush Runner: the adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson, by Mark Bourrie (November)
The Sleeping Car Porter, by Suzette Mayr (December)
The Spoon Stealer, by Lesley Crewe (January)
Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St. John Mandel (February)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, by Gabrielle Zevin
The Fortunes of Jaded Women, by Carolyn Huynh
The Last Chance Library, by Freya Sampson
The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah