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This Time Tomorrow

This Time Tomorrow

Emma Straub

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494 ratings·16,910 reviews

Imagine a vacation to your past. In Emma Straub's heartfelt novel, time travel gets a fresh twist in this unique love story. On the cusp of 40, Alice's life is good enough. She likes her job and cherishes her independence. But her father's illness leaves her feeling adrift. Waking up on her 16th bir...

Pages
310
Format
Hardcover
Published
2022-05-17
Publisher
Riverhead Books
ISBN
9780525539001

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Emma Straub
Emma Straub

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Emma Straub is the New York Times‒bestselling author of the novels All Adults Here, Modern Lovers, The Vacationers, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, and the short story collection Other People We Married. Straub's work has been published in twenty countries, and she and her husband own Books Are Magic, an independent b...

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Melissa (Always Behind)
Melissa (Always Behind)·3 years ago
What a beautiful book! I loved every minute of listening to the audiobook of *This Time Tomorrow*, narrated by the fabulous Marin Ireland. Her performance truly brought Emma Straub's story to life. Having lost my own father ten years ago, I felt a pang of jealousy for Alice's ability to travel back and spend time with her younger, healthier father. Getting to know him in new and surprising ways was such a compelling part of the story. I also loved the ultimate resolution. Time travel stories li...
JanB
JanB·3 years ago
This is a love story, but it’s the love between a daughter and her father. It involves time travel, but don’t let that scare you off. It’s the sliding door type of time travel, not sci-fi time travel with complicated, mind-bending scientific explanations. Instead, the focus is on relationships. Alice isn't exactly unhappy with her life, but it’s the eve of her 40th birthday and she is taking stock. Her career dreams have fizzled, just like her love life, and her father is lying in a hospital be...
Terrie  Robinson
Terrie Robinson·3 years ago
Emma Straub's "This Time Tomorrow" is a book I absolutely loved losing myself in!Alice Stern is turning forty tomorrow, but today she's feeling contemplative. She's reflecting on her independent, single life, how much she adores living in New York City, her comfortable job, and her deep and cherished friendship with her BFF Sam. She's happy, isn't she? Her dad, Leonard, is nearing the end of his life, and Alice feels like something is missing in hers. Sitting quietly by his hospital bedside, she...
Anna Avian
Anna Avian·3 years ago
Honestly, I found "This Time Tomorrow" by Emma Straub to be a real snooze. The plot just crawled along with absolutely no excitement or anything to grab my attention. About halfway through, I just started skimming to get it over with. If you're looking for a page-turner, this isn't it. Definitely not one of the best book reviews I've had to write.
Barbara
Barbara ·3 years ago
Fans of Emma Straub are in for a treat with her latest novel, “This Time Tomorrow”. In this captivating story, Straub delves into the intriguing concept of time travel and the tantalizing possibility of altering the course of one's life. If you're looking for a great book about family, love, and second chances, this might be it. In an interview with NPR, Straub revealed that “This Time Tomorrow” is deeply personal, mirroring her own experiences. Like the protagonist Alice, Straub grappled with s...
Elyse Walters
Elyse Walters·3 years ago
Audiobook read by Marin Ireland... 8 hours and 31 minutes. Tons of heart... and brilliant, subtle messages. I LOVE- LOVE - LOVE this book... love what Emma Straub created. 5+++++ stars... [emotionally impactful — dazzling, delectable, and salient] Note: a great gift for a daughter to give dad for Father’s Day coming up... or... a Dad to give his daughter—also on Father’s Day… Such a wonderful Dad/daughter book buddy read this could be. After listening for 8-ish hours in only 2 sittings - wit...
Taylor Reid
Taylor Reid·3 years ago
When 40-year-old Alice finds herself hurled back to 1996, she's understandably floored. But what really throws her for a loop is seeing her now-sickly father, vibrant and charming as he used to be. Driven to help him, Alice searches for a way to change the past and save him in the present. I absolutely couldn't put This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub down. For an engaging time travel novel, check out This Time Tomorrow.
Paromjit
Paromjit·3 years ago
Emma Straub's delightful time-traveling novel, *This Time Tomorrow*, is a celebration of New York City and an exploration of a deeply felt father-daughter relationship. Alice, a true New Yorker, is nearing her 40th birthday. She works in the admissions office of the exclusive and expensive Belvedere School—the same school she attended. This makes her feel perpetually stuck, interviewing the children of parents she went to school with. She tries to visit her ailing 73-year-old father, Leonard, as...
Library Lea
Library Lea·4 years ago
I couldn't stop fixating on how ancient the cat was. Seriously, the whole time I was reading Emma Straub's *This Time Tomorrow*, the age of that darn cat kept popping into my head. It's a testament to Straub's writing, I guess, that even minor details stick with you, but wow, that cat was old. If you're looking for a book review that gets to the heart of *This Time Tomorrow*, well, here it is: prepare to contemplate feline mortality. And, you know, maybe the other stuff too that everyone else is...
Emily
Emily·4 years ago
This Time Tomorrow is that rare novel that leaves you torn between obsessively turning pages and putting it down so you can immediately call the people you love. Emma Straub has written something truly special.