He leaves Vincent a hundred dollar tip along with his business card, and a year later they are living together as husband and wife.

Alkaitis, the owner of the hotel and a wealthy investment manager, arrives too late to read the threat, never knowing it was intended for him. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: 'Why don't you swallow broken glass.' Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for Neptune-Avradimis, reads the words and orders a drink to calm down. Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star hotel on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. (Mar.From the award-winning author of Station Eleven ('Ingenious.' - The New York Times), an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events-a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea. Agent: Katherine Fausset, Curtis Brown, Ltd. This ingenious, enthralling novel probes the tenuous yet unbreakable bonds between people and the lasting effects of momentary carelessness. Using flashbacks, flash-forwards, alternating points-of-view, and alternate realities, Mandel shows the siblings moving in and out of each other’s lives, different worlds, and versions of themselves, sometimes closer, sometimes further apart, like a double helix, never quite linking. The videos have helped Paul, despite a lifelong drug problem, tap into his creative gifts. Paul, meanwhile, has set Vincent’s old videos to music. Finished with Jonathan and the affluent lifestyle and ignored by her best friend, Vincent takes a job as assistant cook on a container ship. When Jonathan’s Ponzi scheme collapses, he goes to prison, where his victims’ ghosts visit him. Vincent relocates to the East Coast and what Mandel calls the kingdom of money to play trophy wife for investor Jonathan Alkaitis. Paul leaves after writing on a window in acid marker a message even he doesn’t understand. Five years later, in the wilderness north of Vancouver, Vincent tends bar at a luxury hotel where Paul works as the night houseman. Vincent has just lost her mother and acquired her first video camera. In 1994, 18-year-old drug-using dropout Paul Smith visits his 13-year-old half-sister, Vincent, in Vancouver. Settings include British Columbia’s coastal wilderness, New York City’s fashionable neighborhoods and corporate headquarters, a container ship in international waters, and a South Carolina prison.

Mandel’s wonderful novel (after Station Eleven) follows a brother and sister as they navigate heartache, loneliness, wealth, corruption, drugs, ghosts, and guilt.

Last night in montreal emily mandel