Jessica M. Goldstein Discusses Retro, Her Time-Traveling Debut Novel

Barnes & Noble Union Square welcomes the author to celebrate her debut novel — an out-of-work actress lands a job as a time travel guide for an ultra-luxury company, leading wealthy tourists on vacations to historical hotspots: bachelorette parties in the Old West, speakeasy birthday bashes in the 1920s, Gold Rush prospecting for Wall Street guys.

But as her trips to the past begin to unravel her present — strange things happening to her memory, her relationships, an impossible love triangle spanning decades — she confronts an unsettling truth: escaping into the past was never really an escape at all.