This Time Tomorrow
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
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“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
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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?
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1Time did not exist in the hospital. Like a Las Vegas casino, there were no clocks anywhere, and the harsh fluorescent lighting remained equally bright during the entire stretch of visiting hours. Alice had asked, once, if they turned off the lights at night, but the nurse didn't seem to hear, or maybe she thought it was a joke, but in either case, she didn't respond, and so Alice didn't know the answer. Her father, Leonard Stern, was still in his bed in the center of the room, attached to more lines and cords and bags and machines than Alice could count, and had hardly spoken for a week, and so he wasn't going to tell her, either, even if he did open his eyes again. Could he sense the difference? Alice thought about lying in the grass in Central Park in the summertime as a teenager, letting her closed eyelids feel the warmth of the sun, when she and her friends would stretch their bodies out on rumpled blankets, waiting for JFK Jr. to accidentally hit them with a Frisbee. These lights didn't feel like the sun. They were too bright, and too cold.
Alice could visit on Saturdays and Sundays, and in the afternoon on Tuesdays and Thursdays, when her workday ended early enough that she could hop on the train and get to the hospital before visiting hours had ended. From her apartment in Brooklyn, the subway ride was an hour door-to-door, the 2/3 from Borough Hall to 96th Street, and then the local all the way to 168th Street, but from work, it was half an hour on the C train, a straight shot from 86th and Central Park West.
Over the summer, Alice had been able to visit nearly every day, but since school had started, a few days a week was the best she could do. It felt like it had been decades since her father was still himself, when he looked more or less the way he had for Alice's whole life, smiling and wry, his beard still more brown than gray, but in reality, it had only been a month. He'd been on a different floor of the
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hospital then, in a room that felt more like an underdecorated hotel room than an operating theater, with a photograph of Mars that he'd torn out of the New York Times taped to the wall, alongside a photo of his ancient and powerful cat, Ursula. She wondered whether someone had taken those things and put them with the rest of his belongings his wallet, his telephone, whatever actual clothing he'd been wearing when he checked in, the stack of paperback books he'd brought with him or whether they'd been thrown away in one of the giant flip-top waste bins that lined the sterile hallways.
When someone asked how her father was doing Emily, who she shared a desk with in the admissions office; or Sam, her best friend from high school, who had three children, a husband, a house in Montclair, and a closet full of high heels to wear to her job at a terrifying law firm; or her boyfriend, Matt Alice wished for an easy answer. The longer it went on, the more the question turned into an empty phrase, the way one might say How are you? to an acquaintance passing on the sidewalk and keep walking. There were no tumors to excise, no germs to fight. It was just that many neighborhoods of Leonard's body were falling apart in a great, unified chorus: his heart, his kidneys, his liver. Alice understood now, as she never truly had before, how the body was a Rube Goldberg machine, and every time one domino or lever got knocked sideways, the whole thing would stop. When the doctors poked their heads into the ICU, it was just the word failure, over and over again. They were all waiting for her father to die. It could be days or weeks or months, no one was quite able to say. One of the worst parts of the whole thing, Alice understood, was that doctors were almost always guessing. They were smart people, and the guesses were informed by tests and trials and years of experience, but they were guessing nonetheless.
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When someone asked how her father was doing Emily, who she shared a desk with in the admissions office; or Sam, her best friend from high school, who had three children, a husband, a house in Montclair, and a closet full of high heels to wear to her job at a terrifying law firm; or her boyfriend, Matt Alice wished for an easy answer. The longer it went on, the more the question turned into an empty phrase, the way one might say How are you? to an acquaintance passing on the sidewalk and keep walking. There were no tumors to excise, no germs to fight. It was just that many neighborhoods of Leonard's body were falling apart in a great, unified chorus: his heart, his kidneys, his liver. Alice understood now, as she never truly had before, how the body was a Rube Goldberg machine, and every time one domino or lever got knocked sideways, the whole thing would stop. When the doctors poked their heads into the ICU, it was just the word failure, over and over again. They were all waiting for her father to die. It could be days or weeks or months, no one was quite able to say. One of the worst parts of the whole thing, Alice understood, was that doctors were almost always guessing. They were smart people, and the guesses were informed by tests and trials and years of experience, but they were guessing nonetheless.
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Autoren-Porträt von Emma Straub
Emma Straub is the New York Times–bestselling author of four other novels—All Adults Here, The Vacationers, Modern Lovers, and Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures—and the short story collection Other People We Married. Her books have been published in twenty countries. She and her husband own Books Are Magic, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn, New York.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Emma Straub
- 2023, Internationale Ausgabe, 336 Seiten, Masse: 18,9 x 12,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Riverhead Books
- ISBN-10: 0593713087
- ISBN-13: 9780593713082
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.05.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Praise for This Time Tomorrow: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
A touching take on time-travel books. . .This moving, heartbreaking book will have you calling your loved ones while you still can. Reader s Digest
Fans of 90s nostalgia will fall in love with Straub s This Time Tomorrow. . .The time travel aspect adds an unexpected twist on Straub s witty, character-driven examination of family dynamics, and she serves up a surprising, unique solution to Alice s troubles. The novel is also a heartfelt elegy to the disappearing landscapes of New York City. Minneapolis Star Tribune
Poignant, loving, humorous, and such a beautiful painting of New York City in those teenage years, Emma has brought you a really fun and extraordinary novel. Real Simple
As always, Straub creates characters who feel fully alive, exploring the subtleties of their thoughts, feelings, and relationships.
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. . . Combine Straub's usual warmth and insight with the fun of time travel and you have a winner. Kirkus, STARRED review
Known for her plucky voice and sweetly amusing ensemble comedies, Emma Straub returns with her most emotionally resonant work yet Beneath the layers of 90s nostalgia and sci-fi portals to the past lies something even more satisfying: a complicated tale that doesn t feel the slightest bit complicated. Vogue
Dig out your old band T's and crack open this charming family saga . . . Unlike other time travel stories, this one's not about figuring out how to get back to the present but how to appreciate it when you do. Good Housekeeping
Brimming with whimsy and humor, the story of a young woman s second chance at life is grounded by the unforced father-daughter relationship at its center. Come for the nostalgia, stay for the tenderness. Elle
A moving story about a father-daughter relationship. . .chronicles what happens when one 40-year-old woman wakes up and is suddenly 16 years old again. But it's not her youth she's riveted by it's her father's. Marie Claire
Emma Straub is most famous for her wry, warm novels exploring how our relationships shape, delight, wound, and, ultimately, sustain us [and] the tone of the book is pure Straub: a funny, moving look at the most important relationship in one woman s life This Time Tomorrow is a case of come-for-the-wacky-time-warp/stay-for-the-timeless-wisdom In the end, the most remarkable thing about This Time Tomorrow isn t that Straub manages to make us believe the main character is a time traveler; it s that she forces us to realize we all are. Oprah Daily
The always delightful, deeply beloved Emma Straub returns with a novel that seems like her take on 13-going-on-30 . It s Straub, so you know it s going to be funny, touching, and filled with family drama. Glamour
"This addictive and lovely novel is Straub's smallest so far, focusing ultimately on a single character and her most treasured relationship. Yet it contains no less of Straub's signature warmth and authenticity. Booklist, STARRED review
Has a lot of heart, some satisfying plot twists and a bittersweet, open-ended finale. BookPage, Starred review
Straub excels at capturing the essence of a specific place and time from Mallorca to the Hudson Valley. In doing that, she reflects back to us an image of the people we want to be. Within her sprawling cast of characters, there often is a better version of the person we want to be. Straub s novels are a bit of fun, comfort amidst the turmoil of the pandemic. The Chicago Review of Books
One of the most moving and intelligent time travel novels I have ever read. Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love." Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
"If I could time travel, I'd go back just far enough to start Emma Straub's beautiful novel This Time Tomorrow again for the first time. 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, New York Times bestselling author of The Dutch House
A beautifully made, elegant music box of a novel that sets in motion its clever clockwork of delight then breaks your heart with its bittersweet, lingering song. Michael Chabon, New York Times bestselling author of Moonglow
I just finished This Time Tomorrow and I m crying at its message and its honesty and its utter beauty. And now I have to go call my mom. Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here
This Time Tomorrow is that rare one-in-a-million novel that not only pulls you wholly into itself, but leaves a lasting mark when it finally releases you. Never has Straub's writing been more incisive, clever, and emotionally generous which is really saying something. The kind of book that will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you call the people you love. Exceptional." Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of People We Meet on Vacation
So big-hearted and poignant, I could not bear to put it down. I laughed and cried. Wonderful. Kate Baer, author of I Hope This Finds You Well
Known for her plucky voice and sweetly amusing ensemble comedies, Emma Straub returns with her most emotionally resonant work yet Beneath the layers of 90s nostalgia and sci-fi portals to the past lies something even more satisfying: a complicated tale that doesn t feel the slightest bit complicated. Vogue
Dig out your old band T's and crack open this charming family saga . . . Unlike other time travel stories, this one's not about figuring out how to get back to the present but how to appreciate it when you do. Good Housekeeping
Brimming with whimsy and humor, the story of a young woman s second chance at life is grounded by the unforced father-daughter relationship at its center. Come for the nostalgia, stay for the tenderness. Elle
A moving story about a father-daughter relationship. . .chronicles what happens when one 40-year-old woman wakes up and is suddenly 16 years old again. But it's not her youth she's riveted by it's her father's. Marie Claire
Emma Straub is most famous for her wry, warm novels exploring how our relationships shape, delight, wound, and, ultimately, sustain us [and] the tone of the book is pure Straub: a funny, moving look at the most important relationship in one woman s life This Time Tomorrow is a case of come-for-the-wacky-time-warp/stay-for-the-timeless-wisdom In the end, the most remarkable thing about This Time Tomorrow isn t that Straub manages to make us believe the main character is a time traveler; it s that she forces us to realize we all are. Oprah Daily
The always delightful, deeply beloved Emma Straub returns with a novel that seems like her take on 13-going-on-30 . It s Straub, so you know it s going to be funny, touching, and filled with family drama. Glamour
"This addictive and lovely novel is Straub's smallest so far, focusing ultimately on a single character and her most treasured relationship. Yet it contains no less of Straub's signature warmth and authenticity. Booklist, STARRED review
Has a lot of heart, some satisfying plot twists and a bittersweet, open-ended finale. BookPage, Starred review
Straub excels at capturing the essence of a specific place and time from Mallorca to the Hudson Valley. In doing that, she reflects back to us an image of the people we want to be. Within her sprawling cast of characters, there often is a better version of the person we want to be. Straub s novels are a bit of fun, comfort amidst the turmoil of the pandemic. The Chicago Review of Books
One of the most moving and intelligent time travel novels I have ever read. Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love." Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
"If I could time travel, I'd go back just far enough to start Emma Straub's beautiful novel This Time Tomorrow again for the first time. 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, New York Times bestselling author of The Dutch House
A beautifully made, elegant music box of a novel that sets in motion its clever clockwork of delight then breaks your heart with its bittersweet, lingering song. Michael Chabon, New York Times bestselling author of Moonglow
I just finished This Time Tomorrow and I m crying at its message and its honesty and its utter beauty. And now I have to go call my mom. Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here
This Time Tomorrow is that rare one-in-a-million novel that not only pulls you wholly into itself, but leaves a lasting mark when it finally releases you. Never has Straub's writing been more incisive, clever, and emotionally generous which is really saying something. The kind of book that will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you call the people you love. Exceptional." Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of People We Meet on Vacation
So big-hearted and poignant, I could not bear to put it down. I laughed and cried. Wonderful. Kate Baer, author of I Hope This Finds You Well
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