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This Time Tomorrow

A Novel

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This Time Tomorrow

By: Emma Straub
Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Emma Straub
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#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?

©2022 Emma Straub (P)2022 Penguin Audio
Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Science Fiction Time Travel Women's Fiction Heartfelt Witty Suspenseful Romance
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"Marin Ireland offers an adroit and heartfelt performance of Emma Straub's clever new novel, which repurposes the time-travel trope to explore what makes life meaningful.... Add her gifts for characterization and mimicry, which channel teenagers and adults to marvelous effect, and you have addictive listening." (AudioFile)

“What if you could go back in time to be with your elderly dying parent when they were young and healthy? Emma Straub turns this question into reality in her fifth and delightful novel. . . How do we talk with each other about things that really matter?. . .Straub is wise enough to know that despite having ample time, it’s never enough.”—Boston Globe

“Even if the premise of This Time Tomorrow is a flight from realism, the scope of Alice’s concerns is human-scale and plausible. . .although her travels through time allow her to reconsider her romantic history, the person whose past she is most eager to set right is her father, a man whose imminent mortality deepens the novel’s ambient nostalgia into something pressing and poignant.”—The New York Times

“If you could be 16 again, would you? Emma Straub, the queen of the smart-girl summer read, takes that question literally in her light-footed latest about a Manhattanite… a breezy but surprisingly poignant meditation on romance, regret, and family.”Entertainment Weekly

Heartfelt Storytelling • Captivating Time Travel • Exceptional Narration • Emotional Depth • Nostalgic Elements
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The writing is so good. I felt like I was invisibly standing next to the main character through the entire book, feeling all she was feeling. I tried so hard to guess what was coming next, but never guessed. When it ended, I sat and thought about it for quite awhile. I won’t ever forget this book. Excellent message. Excellent story. It felt so possible.

So much to think about

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At first I truly regretted the waisted credit. Give it time, keep listening. This is a sweet and beautiful story.

Stick with it…

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Excellent novel! So many nostalgic moments as a woman who came of age in 1990s.

Excellent!!!

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This took me a few chapters to enjoy - Once it took hold, it was as so consuming- such an interesting perspective on the special relationship we are able to experience with a loved parent - found myself crying when considering how we change as humans and will never feel the same again at a later date

Such a good listen!

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I couldn't stop once I started! I loved this book. very well written, the audio was great, and the story was phenomenal. I had no idea how it would turn out, it kept me guessing. amazing book.

great book

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A great read by my favorite narrator. Not your typical time travel story…definitely worth the listen

5 stars!

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I hesitated reading this because I lost my dad 10 years ago, but this book had me emotional in all the right ways. It’s not just a book- it was an experience.

Bittersweet if you’ve lost a parent

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Slow at times, but overall a great story worth reading. I have recommended to many friends!

Great book

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This is a beautiful book about the relationships in our lives with others and with ourselves. About choices, but mostly about control, or the lack of it in our lives. This one will stay with me for a while.

Unusual story about the usual stuff

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At first it was just a very good engaging tale. Then it got very deep. I cried so much. And I could not stop listening. This book is very worth the time. Loved it,

Broke my heart

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