How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe -- Charles Yu

<p><b>From the National Book Award-&#8288;winning author of <i>Interior Chinatown</i>, comes a razor-sharp, hilarious, and touching story of a son searching for his father ... through quantum space-time.</b> <p/>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 <i>How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe</i>, and somewhere inside it is information that will help him. It may even save his life.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Charles Yu<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 06/28/2011<br><b>Pages:</b> 256<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.57lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.00h x 5.27w x 0.78d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780307739452<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>New York Times Book Review</i> 07/17/2011 pg. 24<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>CHARLES YU</b> is the author of four books, including <i>Interior Chinatown</i> (the winner of the 2020 National Book Award for fiction), and the novel <i>How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe</i> (a <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book and a <i>Time </i>magazine best book of the year). He received the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award and was nominated