I eagerly awaited reading this book by Emily St. John Mandel, who wrote Station Eleven. Sea of Tranquility is another science fiction novel which is her forte. 18 year old Edwin St. Andrew has traveled across the Atlantic ocean, (rather he is expelled from the polite society) that he lives in when he begins talking what they deem as crazy. It's when he goes into the Canadian forest and hears a violin playing, a violin that isn't there that he question his sanity. Is that violin the sound of an airship? Is he in an airship? Centuries later a female author is on a book tour, her book where she writes about a man who plays his violin for change in an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him. What is real? What is imagination or shared history? This is a superb story of time travel.

* I read an advance copy and was not compensated.