🏷️ Interconnected Stories
8 entries tagged with this trope
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel · 2022
A 1912 exile in Canada, a 2020 author on book tour, a detective in a moon colony — all connected by an impossible moment. Mandel at her most luminous.
Anxious People
Fredrik Backman · 2020
A failed bank robber takes hostages at an apartment viewing. Everyone in the room has problems. What follows is the most wholesome hostage situation in literary history.
North Woods
Daniel Mason · 2023
One house in the New England woods, traced through centuries of inhabitants. From colonial settlers to modern times. Each chapter shifts form — poem, thriller, love story. Wildly inventive.
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel · 2022
A remittance man in 1912, an author on book tour during a pandemic, an investigator in the far future — connected by an impossible moment. Time, simulation theory, and what makes life real.
Anxious People
Fredrik Backman · 2019
A failed bank robber takes hostages at an apartment viewing. Everyone is a mess. Everyone is connected. Backman makes you laugh and cry on the same page.
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel · 2022
A remittance man in 1912, an author in 2020, a detective in 2401 — connected by a strange moment in time. Are we living in a simulation?
North Woods
Daniel Mason · 2023
A single house in the New England woods. Across centuries, its inhabitants live, love, and haunt. Each chapter is a different era, voice, and genre.
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi · 2016
Two half-sisters in 18th century Ghana. One marries an Englishman; one is enslaved. Each chapter follows a descendant across generations into modern-day America.