Why Visit America

Each story in this collection pivots around a transformation of some facet of life as we know it to deliver a series of visions of some possible, and some impossible, futures for America. From elderly family members who are outcast for refusing to take their own life when they cease to be productive, to the ending of prisons through sentences that remove memories, to a "rock star" prostitute who is thronged by legions of adoring fans during her tour of the country, Baker explores the edges of the alternate futures and imagines the inner lives of the people living through it. In so doing, re reflects back on our own contemporary condition an gives space for other ways to think about our future.