This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

This Time Tomorrow

A Novel

Emma Straub

Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · May 16, 2023

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The pages brim with tenderness and an appreciation for what we had and who we were.

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Who it’s for
A lightly whimsical, intimate read with romance, time play, and a steady emotional current.
Genres
Time Travel Fiction, Magical Realism, Time-Travel Romance
Published
Penguin Publishing Group, May 16, 2023

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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?

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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?

Time-Bent Charm

A lightly whimsical, intimate read with romance, time play, and a steady emotional current.

Come here for

  • Playful time-travel romance
  • Warm, immersive storytelling

Expect

  • A sustained narrative drift
  • Book-club-friendly warmth

Where it sits

Time Travel Fiction76%
Time-Travel Romance54%
Magical Realism34%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Time Travel Fiction
  • Women's Fiction
  • Family Life
Authors
Emma Straub
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Published
May 16, 2023
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Time Travel Fiction