This was on my Christmas wish list and I just finished it. It's a great piece of science fiction in that it deploys time travel to talk about the experience of being a refugee. It also points up the good fortune we have in the United States that we chalk up to American Exceptionalism.

In addition to the themes of being a refugee and how economic systems are set up to keep people permanently poor, the author does a great job in exploring the inner lives of our relationships to others and ourselves.