suspend us in a kind of hallucinatory present where every detail is sharply defined yet queasily unreliable. Certainties are blurred, truth becomes malleable and in The Glass Hotel the con man thrives. her narratives snake their way across treacherous, shifting terrain. This ingenious, enthralling novel probes the tenuous yet unbreakable bonds between people and the lasting effects of momentary carelessness."- Publishers Weekly, starred, "The question of what is real-be it love, money, place or memory-has always been at the heart of Ms. A gorgeously rendered tragedy."- Booklist, starred "Mandel's wonderful novel (after Station Eleven ) follows a brother and sister as they navigate heartache, loneliness, wealth, corruption, drugs, ghosts, and guilt. Mandel weaves an intricate spider web of a story. Kirkus Reviews, starred "Another tale of wanderers whose fates are interconnected. In luminous prose, Mandel shows how easy it is to become caught in a web of unintended consequences and how disastrous it can be when such fragile bonds shatter under pressure.
At its heart, this is a ghost story in which every boundary is blurred, from the moral to the physical. John Mandel's bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility ! Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan's wife, walks away into the night. When his scheme collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis's billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: Why don't you swallow broken glass. Freshly mysterious." - The Washington Post Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island.
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