I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, as I find Emily St. John Mandel's writing delicious. Science fiction written as literature more than as a genre novel. Time travel stories are pretty much all the same in their impossibility, and this one doesn't break out of the mold. But what Mandel does within the mold is highly enjoyable. The characters and situations are something you can feel deep sympathy for--Olive Llywellen's book tour exhaustion at the end of normal life, Gaspery's obsessive pursuit of the novel's central mystery, all the other supporting cast that built out the story--very satisyfing.
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