Multiple timelines and fractured realities create a layered narrative experience
Set in a near-future Los Angeles after the collapse of the United States for a unique geopolitical backdrop
Involves themes of surveillance, freedom, and resilience to engage contemporary readers
Award-winning author Emily St. John Mandel delivers a literary masterpiece
spans diverse locations including Los Angeles, Paris, Greece, and a colony on the moon for expansive storytelling
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The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman—a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State—searches for answers. Los Angeles, 2031: The first