This Time Tomorrow

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"What if you could take a vacation to your past, without the filter of memory? What would you give to go back in time and relive your youth, in person, with the people who shared it? On the eve of her 40th 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, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But something is missing. Her father, the single parent who raised her, is ailing and out of reach. How did they get here so fast? Did she take too much for granted along the way? When Alice wakes up the next morning somehow back in 1996, it isn't her 16-year-old body that is the biggest shock, or the possibility of romance with her adolescent crush, it's her dad: the vital, charming, 49-year-old version of her father with whom she is reunited. Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, is there anything that she should do differently this time around? What would she change, given the chance? With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, Emma Straub cleverly turns all the traditional time travel tropes on their head and delivers a different kind of love story - about the lifelong, reverberating relationship between a parent and child"-- Provided by publisher.

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Lovely submitted by russelan on June 10, 2022, 8:42pm I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did. I was immediately drawn into the story. Alice and her dad's relationship was absolutely lovely.

Keep thinking about this book, even a week after finishing submitted by kpkozloff on June 15, 2022, 7:11pm I’ve read Emma Straub before and enjoyed but not raved over her books. However, I was completely drawn into to the time-travel premise of this book (back to 1996 for Alice’s 16th birthday) and found her relationship with her dad endearing.

Read twice and loved both times submitted by A2AE on June 10, 2023, 6:52am I’ve read this twice, once in print and once with the audiobook, and loved it both times. It’s a great page turner, full of details that will get you thinking about your loved ones and what you’d do if offered a redo from a moment in your past. If you liked The Midnight Library, this is just as good and has light moments that bring a perfect balance to the story.

Eminently Readable submitted by robinpollak on June 10, 2023, 8:10pm This book is easy to read and well-written. The characters and relationships are genuine, flawed yet endearing, making the time-travel premise of the book easy to accept even if you're not a sci-fi reader. I recommended it as a light read for a thoughtful person.

Great read submitted by Bethybeth07 on June 26, 2023, 11:43am Not the love story I was expecting. It was a refreshing change of pace

Father/Daughter Tale submitted by cdeucher on July 18, 2023, 9:19am Pulled this off the shelf not knowing what I was really getting into. Not a fan of sci-fi at all but this story was so well written I never gave it a second thought. Oh to have a father like Alice's.

Beautiful story about a father/daughter relationship submitted by ajh on July 28, 2023, 10:08am Genuinely good story about a father/daughter relationship, mixed in with some time travel, because why not? Don't let the time travel part put you off if that's not your thing (but it interesting for those who like it). The book is fully aware of how cheesy time travel stories can sometimes be, and makes lots of references to other time travel stories, mostly affectionately teasingly.

My personal bag of candy submitted by Emily LB on August 7, 2023, 12:45pm This book checks so many boxes for me: magical realism, coming of age, parent child relationships across the lifespan, and time traveling to my 16 yo self! It isn’t perfect (the ending could have been a little stronger imo) but overall I really liked it! 4/5

What if you could change the past? submitted by camelsamba on August 8, 2023, 11:05pm Fascinating approach to time travel, although that was more a vehicle to explore the relationship between a daughter and the father who raised her. It was fascinating to see how small changes rippled through time, especially with respect to core relationships and resulting life satisfaction. I listened to the audiobook version, which was very good.

loved this book submitted by gw on August 22, 2023, 11:01am The main character is so relatable and the plot is not super predictable. I enjoyed reading about the consequences of the character's different choices, and I would love to be able to go back in time to experience my parents when they were younger, from my adult perspective.

This Time Tomorrow submitted by leighsprauer on September 16, 2023, 7:49am This book is definitely okay. Alice, a grade school admissions counselor, is turning forty, and her life is just okay: her job is fine, her love life is mediocre, and sadly, her dad is dying. But when she falls asleep in a guard house in her gated community, she wakes up on the morning of her 16th birthday, which, the first time around, hadn't been a great day. With this hindsight, she "corrects" the day, and so when she figures out how to return to her 40-year-old self, there are some pretty significant differences. Unfortunately, the thing she wanted to change the most - her dad being terminally ill - has not changed. So she goes back, again and again, partly to "fix" the future, but mostly just because she enjoys spending time with her healthy dad. Finally, she figures out the changes that will give her a future she can live with, and decides to stay in the present.
Straub is a decent writer: the plot moves along easily, the descriptions are good without being overdone. But for whatever reason, I had a hard time caring about any of the characters, including Alice. A main point of the book, I think, was coming to terms with grief and loss, and how we make sense of the loss of parents, especially. But Alice's grief was just not that moving; Straub failed to show its depth and tragedy.
I also have to note that the plot, although definitely more nuanced and mature, had a certain similarity to The Midnight Library. Characters time-traveling to fix something that has gone wrong isn't necessarily a novel idea, I guess, but many of Straub's devices (waking up to find a new family, trying to figure out who you are in the new life, giving a lot of detail about the first several time jumps but then only giving bits and pieces of subsequent ones) are very very similar to The Midnight Library. I think their aims are different: The Midnight Library's moral, so to speak, is being at peace with your choices, whereas This Time Tomorrow's moral is acceptance of things that are outside your control. They also have this in common: you're not missing anything by not reading them.