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by Emma Straub
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.
What if you could take a vacation to your past?
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 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 16th 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, 40-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?
What are you reading this week? And what did you think of last week’s books? (09-11-2025)
...of my stack of books after hearing an interpretive performance of Julia Dent Grant provided by the First Ladies' Library and Museum. I'm now reading This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub for next month's book discussion at our local library. There is an interesting connection between these two books: I purchased The General and Julia...
-Diane_Jones
"As always, Straub creates characters who feel fully alive, exploring the subtleties of their thoughts, feelings, and relationships...Combine Straub's usual warmth and insight with the fun of time travel and you have a winner." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"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)
"[A] delightful take on time travel...Readers will be captivated." - Publishers Weekly
"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
"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
"Time travel is a popular trope in fiction, and Straub deploys it brilliantly in her effervescent new novel...Straub is an expert chronicler of social mores and the inner lives of her (mostly) bourgeois characters, and here she delivers a surefire bestseller." - Oprah Daily
"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
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Emma Straub is the New York Times-bestselling author of six books for adults: the novels This Time Tomorrow, All Adults Here, The Vacationers, Modern Lovers, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, and the short story collection Other People We Married. She is also the author of a picture book, Very Good Hats. Her books have been published in more than twenty languages. She and her husband own Books Are Magic, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn, New York.
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