by Charles Yu
First published 2010
When a tech repair worker named Minor gets trapped in a time loop, he must journey through the quantum multiverse to find his future self and escape his fractured family's influence. Bouncing between past, present, and possible futures, Minor's desperate attempts to reset the timeline only spur more chaos. As he grapples with his father's abandonment and his own stunted ambitions, Minor must confront the paradoxes of his life before the fabric of reality unravels around him.
Genres: science-fiction, literary-fiction, time-travel, family-drama
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Science Fictional Universe
Period: Past, Present, Future
239 pages · Paperback · Corvus
Content warnings: mental-illness