An Ocean of Minutes
A Novel
by Thea Lim
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appears in Time Travel, Science Fiction, and Science.
Shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a Best Book of the Year according to Real Simple, the Globe and Mail, and the CBC, this follows the love story of two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart. In this novel America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do w...
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appears in Time Travel, Science Fiction, and Science.
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