This book’s story is presented with a science fiction (time travel) veneer, but it is really about: how we regard time and how it affects us (“we are all time machines”), family dynamics, and literary theory. The writing is quite witty in spots (at times the protagonist reminded me of Stanislaw Lem’s Ijon Tichy, from The Star Diaries), but the author has a tendency to  belabor a point (smilar to the regressive loops contained in the story). The book is short (slightly over 200 pages), but I felt that the author could have presented his ideas in an even shorter form.  

 

I enjoyed the book, and recommend it to anyone who appreciates an easily accessible, fictional ‘thought experiment.’