This was complicated and clever, a bizarre but meaningful reflection on time travel, humanity, breaking rules, pandemics, and connection. Emily St. John Mandel did a fantastic job of creating tension, enabling us to see all the puzzle pieces, even though we weren’t quite sure how we would put them together. I also loved that this book had parallels to The Glass Hotel with Vincent and the Ponzi scheme, as well as Mandel’s own life (perhaps?), as she describes the experience of Olive’s book tour, answering questions about writing about a pandemic during a pandemic. This was immersive and bizarre, well-researched and so beautiful. 

This reminded me of The Coincidence Makers and Recursion.