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My blog lately is just watches and Emily St. John Mandel novels but what can I say - every time I finish one of her books I am immediately drawn to her other titles, and watches... watches are a different beast altogether. Lets just say the algorithm on my only social media app (YT) is now completely revamped and I'm only being recommended more watch videos. Guilty as charged but I enjoy it. I recently finished Emily St. John Mandel’s latest novel, Exit Party, and wow, this one is eerily prescient, showing where the world could lead us in not too far off a future. Without too many spoilers, the book delves into the Mandel multiverse, this time acknowledging it head-on, with characters moving between two uniquely dystopian versions of the United States. One torn by modern civil war, the other ruled through fear of constant surveillance and the disappearance of dissidents. Both told from the point of view of the same person, or should I say two different people with the same name and…

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