When Andrew Bertaina first saw the 1995 Ethan Hawke-Julie Delpy film Before Sunrise—swiping the tape from his sister’s bedroom—he was fifteen, painfully shy, and living a sheltered existence in small-town California. The movie cracked something open in him, with its romantic European setting and its charming, intelligent protagonists, who fall in love with each other over the course of a day spent wandering the streets of Vienna. Within the movie’s story seemed to lie a promise: that you could truly be known by another person, that a relationship could be a never-ending conversation with someone who was both interested and interesting.

Fast-forward 25 years, and Andrew’s teenaged romanticism has been challenged by life’s realities, which have included a marriage, a child, a move across the country, a divorce. Meanwhile, the film’s central relationship has also been challenged and complicated by two sequels. When Andrew decides to revisit the first film, with a new partner and a bottle of wine—a rare date night for two single parents—he can’t help but wonder: Will he still see himself in the movie? And, perhaps more importantly, will she?

Publishing May 6, 2025.

ISBN: ‎ 979-8-9850089-4-4

If This Should Reach You in Time sounds the alarm of climate change and democratic collapse with tender lament and guarded hope from award-winning poet Justin Marks.

When Kristin Keane lost her mother, she was devastated by the thought of never spending time with her again. She found herself turning to narratives about alternate universes and time travel—everything from quantum physics to Quantum Leap—in search of ways to reconnect, to bring back what was lost, to conjure up a world in which her mother still existed.

This formally inventive memoir, written in the style of an encyclopedia, is the author’s attempt to both remember her mother and map her own grief. Keane puts thinkers like Einstein and Barthes in conversation with pop culture touchstones like Interstellar and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to explore what it means to lose someone, and what remains of a person—and your relationship with them—after they’re gone.

ISBN-13: ‎ 979-8985008906