The curious coincidence is pointed out to her when the namesake arrives as an interviewer. Her latest book, Marienbad, has a character named Gaspery Jacques. She lives in a moon colony but travels to Earth for book tours-experiences that fill her with working-mom anxiety. The next pivotal character is Olive, a bestselling author in the year 2203. He had addressed her as Mirella then-or had she hallucinated? But who is this man? He resembles a gunman she met on an overpass as a kid. She runs into Gaspery, an investigator who quizzes the musician about the curious forest footage. Old video footage reveals that Vincent had a similar experience at the maple tree. The musician is the brother of her long-lost friend, Vincent. We shift gears to 2020, where we meet Mirella Kessler at a music concert. Roberts, the new priest he meets, turns out to be a fake, and Edwin is left unhinged. Suddenly, everything is a blur, and he hears an impenetrable symphony: a violin, a whoosh, and the sounds of a train station. Things quickly get going when Edwin makes his way through a maple tree overgrowth in the forest. Andrew, a privileged Englishman not in line for inheritance, charting the waters of the Atlantic. The novel sets sail in 1912 with Edwin St.
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