The Edge of Yesterday

De: Rita Woods

Narrado por: Dara Brown

The Edge of Yesterday is a haunting contemporary speculative novel about time travel and finding yourself from award-winning author Rita Woods.

Greer Coffey is a principal dancer with a renowned Harlem company. Sebastian Coffey is an architect with a prestigious Midtown firm. The Coffey’s are the ultimate dream couple—until their world completely unravels. After Greer develops a career ending neurologic disorder, she finds herself back in her hometown of Detroit. Angry, lonely, her marriage buckling under the strain, she takes to aimlessly wandering the city streets. One night, she stumbles through a vortex, a portal through time that transports her back into 1925 Detroit, where she meets a handsome, charming doctor.

Dr. Montgomery Gray is a member of Detroit’s Black Aristocracy, wealthy and connected to some of the most powerful Black families in the country. Detroit in 1925 is the beating heart of an industrial nation, but it is also a tinderbox of poor immigrants, Prohibition driven gang wars, and the Klan. As a member of the Talented Tenth, Monty is expected to be the tip of the spear in the fight for the Race, no matter the cost. Exhausted, frustrated, and longing to break free of expectations, he is stunned to find a woman from the future roaming Detroit’s Black Bottom.

Initially cautious, Monty and Greer slowly grow increasingly exhilarated with the visits. For Greer, 1925 offers an escape from the sorrow of her "real life," and for Monty, the future that Greer lays before him is irresistible. But 2025 becomes gradually less and less recognizable, as each visit back through time causes increasing rips in the timeline. Ultimately, Greer finds herself trapped in 1925 and Monty is forced into a deadly confrontation that changes the trajectory of his life.

©2025 Rita Wood. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Reseñas de la Crítica

“The Edge of Yesterday is a spinning, swirling novel of extraordinary imagination. Readers are transported back and forth in time in an unforgettable story of second chances and what ifs.”―Elizabeth Gonzalez James, author of The Bullet Swallower

“Fans of historical fiction will love this gorgeous, surreal tale of two lives across time, one drawn to the past, the other to the future, both seeking escape and both forever changed by the devastating consequences of their choices.”―Veronica G. Henry, author of The Canopy Keepers

“The Edge of Yesterday is a delicious time travel adventure that feels epic and intimate, fresh and startling. Juxtaposing the possibilities and constraints of 2025 and 1925, Woods conjures compelling characters in wonderfully detailed settings to speculate on what ideas about the future mean to the past. Her characters ask themselves if who they happen to be is who they mean to be. A question for us all.”―Andrea Hairston, author of Archangels of Funk

Premise was good, but the language made it a DNF for me

A beautifully written time travel story between 1925 and 2005. It’s a bit slow. Everyone talks slow, moves slow, but the storyline is fascinating. It’s too bad, though, that this author had to use so much cussing and profanity. I couldn’t take it about halfway through and gave up. I’ll still give it three stars for the originality and cool vintage Detroit vibe. And props to the narrator for pronouncing “Gratiot” correctly.