Status Updates From La teoria dell'eternità

Start not grabbing me, so I read the last 300 pages. Still have no idea what the "tables" are or look like. Nobody in the US would write "tyres" and ppl in LA refer to "the 101" not I-101. Some odd grammar like p 421 "the blast tore into he, Klein, and..." - guess I'll have to read the other 200 pp to figure out how they actually time travel