I enjoyed this! The story is told in cuts back and forth through time but I never got the feeling it was a gimmick. Mandel has a larger point to make. Larger, even, than the surface attraction of a post apocalyptic story.

Obviously reading this during the height of the Omicron variant is unsettling and I may have put up a few emotional blockers while getting through this however, the writing is beautiful and the plot is impressively woven.