This Time Tomorrow: A Novel [L0082]

2022 - HCDJ Excellent condition. #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER "The pages brim with tenderness and an appreciation for what we had and who we were. I could not have loved it more."-Ann Patchett "One of the most moving and intelligent time travel novels I have ever read. Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love."-Gabrielle Zevin "The kind of book that will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you call the people you love. Exceptional."-Emily Henry What if you could take a vacation to your past? With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, beloved New York Times bestseller Emma Straub offers her own twist on traditional time travel tropes and a different kind of love story. On the eve of her fortieth birthday, Alice's life isn't terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn't exactly the one she expected. She's happy with her apartment, her romantic status, and her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing. When she wakes up the next morning, she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her sixteenth birthday. But it isn't just her adolescent body that shocks her, or seeing her high school crush-it's her dad, the vital, charming, forty-something version of her father with whom she is reunited. Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, some past events take on new meaning. Is there anything that she would change if she could?

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "What Emma Straub has created is a work of art in terms of talking about adulthood and the expectations that come with it, about the relationship between parents and children, about loss and the awful reality of acceptance, about hope and how you should never stop hoping - even if sometimes it's even more painful to keep hoping that let it go."; "A beautiful story of a father-daughter relationship. Yes, it's another time-travel story. Yes, it's about the road not taken, and regrets, and second chances. But nevertheless, it's fresh, sweet, sad, funny, and compelling. A love letter to one's parents and a love letter to New York, "This Time Tomorrow" will be a book I remember for many reasons. Recommended."; "Fair warning: this book might make you laugh out loud one minute and reach for the tissues the next. It's a rollercoaster of emotions, but in the best possible way. "This Time Tomorrow" is more than just a time travel story. It's a beautifully crafted tale about family, growing up (at any age), and the preciousness of time. It's the kind of book that stays with you long after you've turned the last page, making you look at your own life with fresh eyes. If you're in the mood for a heartfelt, thought-provoking read that'll make you want to hug your loved ones a little tighter, this will suit."