Out of the Ruins Last Night in Montreal Sea of Tranquility. John Mandel is a terrific writer, so good that. Most Recommended Books presents the Emily St John Mandel series written by Emily St. An intriguing idea, but the delivery isn’t quite there. The story, which unfolds over the course of the novel, is bizarre enough to be nothing but true. While the plot is interesting enough, the prose often feels forced and the characters sometimes amount to accumulations of quirks, whimsies and neuroses. Back in present-day Montreal, Eli meets Michaela, who happens to be the daughter of the detective who years ago worked on Lilia’s abduction case, and together they try to fill in the blanks of Lilia’s past. Haunted by her inability to remember her early childhood, and by a mysterious shadow that seems to dog her wherever she goes, Lilia moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers and friends along the way. His quest is interspersed with flashbacks to Lilia’s childhood: her father kidnaps her at age seven from her mother’s house, and the two go on the lam. From the New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven Lilia has been leaving people behind her entire life. About a month later, Eli gets a postcard from someone named Michaela in Montreal telling him that Lilia is there, so he heads north, leaving (thankfully) his insufferable friends behind to natter on about art without him. As Eli finishes another grim day of work on his thesis (its topic: dead and dying languages) in his Brooklyn apartment, he realizes his girlfriend, Lilia, never returned after going out for the newspaper that morning.
A young woman with a habit of running away runs away yet again in Mandel’s competent if unremarkable debut.
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