Retro

Retro is a smart exploration of time travel in the Instagram age: a vividly imagined and gently satirical novel, with a keen eye for the ways nostalgia and commerce intertwine.

Hanna Bervoets, author of We Had To Remove This Post

Retro is a funny, punchy, delightful romp through American history, tourism, and the modern workplace. Goldstein’s eye for visceral detail shines as she incisively examines the nature of nostalgia. Existential but silly, heady but oh so juicy. To say what everyone else will say too: I want to travel back so I can read it again for the first time!

Casey Scieszka, author of The Fountain

A magnetic read—equal parts charming, melancholy, and strange—perfect for those with sharp tongues but yearning hearts.

Emily Hunt Kivel, author of Dwelling

Retro is smart, funny, and delicious. If I could time-travel, I would go back and read it again for the first time

Alexandra Petri, writer for The Washington Post

Retro is so many things, all at once: delightful and disturbing; wildly speculative and chillingly realist; meticulously researched and intricately imagined; action-packed and profoundly engaged with questions of ethics, politics and philosophy; propelled through space (and, of course, time) by an engine of crackling cleverness and razor-sharp prose, but constantly retaining a Northstar of deep tenderness and genuine heart. This novel is a cri de couer, a wild adventure, a brilliant book.

Moriel Rothman-Zecher, author of Sadness Is a White Bird

Retro puts a fresh spin on the time-travel genre, blending the allure of times gone past with the absurdities of corporate work culture. Shrewd, witty and original.

Aisling Rawle, author of The Compound

Jessica M. Goldstein always has her finger on the pulse of pop culture, and she's adept at writing about it in perceptive and hilarious ways. And in her funny time-leaping novel, she doesn't miss a beat. Retro is worth your attention—no matter what timeline you're on.

Christopher Monks, Editor at McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Retro is so much fun! It’s got nostalgia, ennui, inappropriate workplace crushes, strange machines, jaunts to weird little bits of history, terrifying corporate overreach, and jokes: what more could you want?

Holly Gramazio, author of The Husbands