What a beautiful book! I loved every minute of my listening experience of this audiobook narrated by the fabulous Marin Ireland.Having lost my own father ten years ago, I was a little jealous of Alice's ability to go back and spend time with her own father in the past, getting to know him in new and surprising ways. I also loved the ultimate resolution of this story. Time travel books (and movies, etc) of this book's sort always make me super introspective and thoughtful about my own life choice...

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 is not exactly unhappy with her life, but it’s the eve of her 40th birthday and she is taking stock of her life. Her career dreams have fizzled, just like her love life, and her father is lying in a ...

"This Time Tomorrow" by Emma Straub is a book I loved spending time with!Alice Stern turns forty tomorrow but today she's in a musing mood. She's thinking about her self-reliant single lifestyle, how much she loves living in New York City, her comfortable job, and her deep-rooted friendship with her BFF Sam, who she adores. She's happy isn't she? Her dad, Leonard is nearing the end of his life and Alice feels as if something is missing in hers. As she sits quietly at his hospital bedside she won...

I found this book to be quite boring. The story dragged without any compelling or exciting moments. Halfway through I just started to skim through the pages.

Emma Straub fans will be pleased with her new novel, “This Time Tomorrow”. In this story, Straub takes on the idea of time travel and the ability to change the course of your life. In an NPR interview, Straub admits that this story is close to an autobiographical work in that, like her main character Alice, Straub was stressed and concerned for her father’s health. Straub’s father, the noted horror and suspense author Peter Straub, was gravely ill with a heart condition in August of 2020, and Em...

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 to 8 ish hours in only 2 sittings - with a small break ...

When 40-year-old Alice is thrust back to 1996, she’s as shocked as one might expect. But what surprises her most is seeing her now ailing father, back to the vital and charming man he once was. Desperate to help him, Alice looks for a way in the past to save him in the present. I couldn’t put it down.

Emma Straub's delightful time travelling novel celebrates New York City and explores the central father-daughter relationship. Native New Yorker Alice is approaching her 40th birthday, she is working in the admissions office of the exclusive and expensive Belvedere School, which she herself had attended, leaving her feeling as if she had never left as she now interviews the children of parents she went to school with. She tries to visit her ailing 73 year old father, Leonard, as much as she can,...

I could not stop thinking about how old the cat was.

the rare novel that leaves you torn between feverishly turning pages and setting it down so you can call the people you love.