Emma Straub's This Time Tomorrow
It’s funny how much narrative voice matters. The last book I read, I was like, stop JABBERING and get this plot going! And for this one, I was immediately invested on page one and could have listened to the narrator talk about her life and her dying father and her friends and her teen years and her fortieth birthday and her slightly dead end job at a fancy school FOREVER before any time travel stuff happened. And I love time travel stuff! But anyway, time travel stuff does happen, as protagonist Alice falls asleep on her 40th birthday, only to wake up in her teen body on her sixteenth birthday—with her teen self's young and healthy father. I’m not gonna say any more about the plot than that, I’ll just say that her dad is the author of a famous sci fi book about time traveling brothers which became a long-running tv show, so there are lots of good pop culture references and nerd references, and the heart of this book is a father-daughter relationship, which is nice to see. And as always with Straub, it’s a satisfying story full of characters you love and want to be friends with. Hope and heartbreak, all together. A.
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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book will be released on May 17th.
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