{"product_id":"the-nostalgic-future-tokeli-baker-9798996086337","title":"The Nostalgic Future: A spiritual memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eSkeptical artist Tokeli falls down a flight of stairs and rips open the \"real world.\" Her recovery is marked by high strangeness. She lands in an all-white Egg. A calm presence appears and says it is staying for the rest of her life. A grocery store song warps. Strangers confess their secrets. Ordinary moments land with eerie precision. Then the dead start showing up...and extraterrestrials and Spirit Guides, and a chorus of voices that will not stop. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e​\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the third night, a thunderous rupture opens in the bedroom ceiling and something ancient steps through the portal. Each encounter pulls her deeper into a rabbit hole she cannot explain or escape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs her psi experiences intensify, so do the consequences. Her marriage strains under a reality only she can see. Her body echoes a frightening family history. The ambitious life she built begins to slip away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeneath it all, a structure begins to emerge. A pattern. A system she comes to understand as The Game. It points toward something inevitable: the Nostalgic Future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarkly funny, sharply self-deprecating, and impossible to put down, The Nostalgic Future reads like fiction. But every word is true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Nostalgic Future is a book for readers who think: \"This might actually be a little dangerous. I might not be the same person after I read this, but I'm going to do it anyway.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tokeli Baker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798996086337\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hidden House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d","brand":"Tokeli Baker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50780025258239,"sku":"9798996086337","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-nostalgic-future-tokeli-baker-9798996086337","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}