By Mariam Nooristani Sea of Tranquility Novel by Emily St. John Mandel The narrative revolves around a haunting moment in time where the characters in the novel experience something unexplainable. Mandel’s storytelling is simply hypnotic as she seamlessly captures the gravity of global events in elegant prose. One event covered in the novel is the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Pandemic-related work may not be your cup of tea right now. Considering this, Mandel writes about the pandemic without causing a flutter of anxiety or panic. The narrative creates a gap of time that allows for time and space to have passed sufficiently enough to where the reader feels a safe mental…