Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled …
So far this bears much resemblance structurally to Cloud Atlas, but is less than half the length. I ultimately found Cloud Atlas overambitious, so I'm interested to see where this one goes!
There was an interesting in-world comment about the protagonist's book ending suddenly/unexpectedly, which was very much my experience with Cloud Atlas - curious to see how that weaves in as well!