'How do you explain the popularity of sites like or 23andme, if not some kind of desire to meet our ancestors?' she said, adding that figuring out how a story starts and ends is the draw. The concept of time travel is one Mandel said is fascinating for most people.

So that was the starting point for 'Sea of Tranquility.' And once I realized that it was going to be a time travel novel, I feel like that's only fun, or it was only fun for me, if I got to traverse an enormous amount of time. ' I'm just going to write whatever I want because the world is terrible. 'And there was something about the awfulness of that historical moment that just made me feel like I'm just going to go for it,' Mandel said. She started the writing process in the spring of 2020 'which in New York City was as horrifying as you might have gleaned from The New York Times reports.' Mandel said that she probably wouldn't have written 'Sea of Tranquility' if it were not for the coronavirus pandemic. One of my very favorite movies is Rian Johnson's film, 'Looper.' 'I've always really enjoyed time travel fiction,' she said. Mandel joined Wisconsin Public Radio's ' BETA' on a book tour and explained why she wanted to explore time travel in 'Sea of Tranquility.' She also imports characters from her 2020 novel ' The Glass Hotel' because as she said, she becomes attached to certain characters. This expansive timeline gives Mandel the chance to write about technology by considering what the world would be like without it.

It’s a beautifully written, compelling book filled with complicated characters that starts in 1912 and fast-forwards to 2401. Now, Mandel is back with another novel called ' Sea of Tranquility,' and it’s just as powerful as 'Station Eleven.' It’s been translated into 33 languages and was adapted into an HBO Max limited series in 2021. The 2014 post-apocalyptic novel was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. John Mandel is probably best known for her novel, ' Station Eleven.' It’s set in the Great Lakes area before and after a pandemic that decimated the world's population.

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