From the National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown,
comes a razor-sharp, hilarious, and touching story of a son searching
for his father ... through quantum space-time.
Every day in Minor Universe 31 people get into time machines and try to
change the past. That's where Charles Yu, time travel technician, steps
in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he's not
taking client calls, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father,
who invented time travel and then vanished. The key to locating his
father may be found in a book. It's called How to Live Safely in a
Science Fictional Universe, and somewhere inside it is information that
will help him. It may even save his life.