This Time Tomorrow- A Novel by Emma Straub
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Read it in one day because I couldn’t put it down. It was beautifully tragic 100% would read again :)
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A Novel As Delightful As It Is Deep
It’s Alice’s 40th birthday and she is not exactly excelling at life. She is an only child who works as an administrator at the same elite NYC prep school she attended 20 years before, lives in a basement apartment and is in a mediocre relationship. Her beloved father, Leonard, is a single dad and a very successful author of a time travel adventure book series featuring 2 teen boys (which conjured up vivid images of The Magic Treehouse series for me). Sadly, he is ill and fading away in a hospital bed. After celebrating her birthday a bit too hard, she staggers to her father’s home late that night to feed the cat and wakes up the next morning in her teenage bedroom…. on her 16th birthday. Vacillating between enjoying the fun of her youth with best friend Sam and her father’s good health, she also feels the panic and desperation to return to her “time.” She confides in them both - amazingly they believe her when she says she is from the future – and there is a good surprise twist here. Eventually she figures out how this time travel works so she can go back – after all, her father is in the time travel business! But this is not a sci fi story– it is about Alice’s self-discovery: learning who she loves, what she values and wants out of life, and that no matter how hard she tries there are inevitable events and realities that cannot be changed. I enjoyed the smart, humorous prose, fabulous 80/90’s pop culture references as well as every time travel quip you can envision. She also pays homage to the Upper West Side of NYC. I even found myself doing a deep dive on Pomander Walk so I could picture the charm. This is a well written and recommended read when a clever fiction escape is needed.
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Thought provoking
Great book! I really enjoyed it.
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Love
I really liked this book. Idk if I was emotional or something at the time but I cried. I really enjoyed it and couldn’t put it down.
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Good Reading
Emma is forty but gets to be sixteen again. Now’s the time to change some things. On her fortieth birthday, Emma wakes up in the home of her single father, and she’s a lot younger. So is he. She has some decisions to make. Emma interacts with her teenage friends and boyfriends and alters history. Then she goes back to her present and sees the differences. In many ways, her life is better, but still, something is wrong. Also, in her present, her dad is dying. Can she change this? She is going to go back and try. Probably the best feature of this book is the relationship between Emma and her dad. He’s an author, and he’s doing the best he can to be a great dad. He and Emma are close. There are many touching father-daughter moments in this book. Sam, Emma’s best friend, makes for a good sounding-board as Emma opens up to her and tells her what’s really going on. Their relationship is well-developed too. Other characters come into play. Their importance lies in how they make Emma ponder things and make changes. She comes to realizations along the way. The time travel aspect is clever, and one doesn’t know quite what to expect. This is a fun book more about relationships than anything. originally posted at long and short reviews
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