ISBN: 979-8-9877197-7-0
Binding: Trade paper
Publication date: December 3, 2024
How We Know Our Time Travelers is a dark, intellectual, and surreal collection that explores themes of technology, climate change, reality, love and loss. These stories examine our contemporary reality of balancing a pre- and post-pandemic life, and the pliability of our relationship with time. This book reminds us of the fragility and unreliability of memory, and its invisible impact on the larger moments of our lives.
Advanced praise
“Reading each of the stories feels like sliding a finger along a knife’s edge. If human life on this planet one day ends, and future earth-dwellers want to know what the dying days felt like, I can imagine them rescuing this sharp and daring book from some burnt-out library and, upon reading it, finally understanding what it was we did to ourselves, and how, even as we were doing it, we wished so hard that things could be different.”
—Vauhini Vara, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Immortal King Rao and This is Salvaged
“Felicelli’s masterful stories herald what life has become in our new reality of robots, holograms, climatic disasters, and biospheric damage. Empathetic to the aching loneliness of humans while highlighting our capacity for greater intimacies—this dazzling collection will never leave you, because the future is here.”
—Lisa Teasley, author of Glow in the Dark and Fluid
“Aching and wondrous . . . Felicelli's stories sing the world electric and mourn its destruction from the edge of the precipice.”
—Elizabeth Gonzales James, author of The Bullet Swallower and Mona at Sea
“Felicelli’s particular magic animates this longing [to revise the definitive moments of our lives] and makes us feel it too.”
—Clare Beams, author of The Garden
“Felicelli’s power resides in her capacity to ground us and awe us with thrilling simultaneity. She’s chiseling out a new genre called Existential Dystopia that celebrates the beauty and bruises of being alive.”
—Joshua Mohr, author of Model Citizen
“Haunting, powerful, and eerily prescient . . . essential reading for our volatile age.”
—Emily Holleman, author of Cleopatra’s Shadows
How We Know Our Time Travelers by Anita Felicelli
Anita Felicelli is the author of two other published books, the novel Chimerica, and the award-winning story collection, Love Songs for a Lost Continent. She is the editor of Alta Journal’s California Book Club. Her short stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Air/Light, and The Normal School, among other literary journals, and have been anthologized and performed. Her criticism and essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Slate, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Review of Books, and New York Times (Modern Love). She lives in the Bay Area with her family.
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