To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)

by Connie Willis

Baine brought me cocoa and asked me if it was true that everyone in America carried a firearm. I told him no.

and the last one’s an ‘N’ or an ‘M.’

Before 2020, then, but after the Pandemic,

Alice, I suppose, though I’ve never understood why children like it. Going from place to place with no rhyme or reason. Appearing and disappearing.”