This Time Tomorrow

A Novel

De: Emma Straub

Narrado por: Marin Ireland, Emma Straub

#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

Reseñas de la Crítica

"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

I read this because someone recommended it

I listened to the audible version of this book.

Good: the author as found their writing voice and style.

Bad: I was hoping once the time traveling FINALLY started half way through the book, it would get better. It did not. Did I mention I was a teen in the 90’s too? Yet I was struggling to sink into the story.
Ugly: I really wanted to like this book because I love all things time travel, but, BUT I was bored.
Yes, it has a deeper meaning of life and grief but it was still lacking actual life. In the end, it was all just about a girl and her daddy issues.

Only just OK

A long time to get through an uninteresting plot. Maybe should be listed as sci-fi?

Thumbs up

I enjoyed this book! I thought it was well written, and very well narrated. I was especially pleased because I got it for free!

Great Book!!

This was a very great listen. The story was well written and the narrator was great!

This Time Tomorrow

I love this book I will definitely read it and hear it again and again. I wish I had read it when I was younger. I think it might’ve changed my Awareness to a degree just to be kinder to the people around me when dealing with their loss. Often I didn’t know what to say so I said nothing. And yes it made me cry!

Evokes deep feelings.

Enjoyed the beautiful writing and narration. Loved feeling the multitude of opposing feelings that this story brought out. All of them part of love.

Yay!

I loved it! This had the perfect heartstrings to comedy ratio. I wish I felt like this after every book.

Love love love

I loved all the twists and the ending! The reader was great too. This was an easy listen but it kept my attention.

A heartfelt adventure

The book reminded me a lot of Midnight Library except that the story focuses more on the relationship between the main character and her father. Would recommend to anyone processing the loss of a loved one - or if you just want a heartfelt story that involves time travel 🙌🏽

Who Wouldn't Want to Go Back?

Who wouldn't want to go back to when they were 16 and do a do-over? I love time travel books and this one had a different twist than the ones I usually listen to but I really enjoyed the story and the narrator rocked it. I definitely would recommend this if you like time travel books.