This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
Summary
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?
Book Setting: New York City
Pomander Walk - Leonard’s home and the garden shed where time travel started for Alice
Marriott Marquis - 45th street - Science Fiction & Fantasy convention where Alice found Leonard and met Laura for the first time
Natural Museum of History (Milstein Hall) - the whale room, “sitting at the bottom of the sea, untouchable by whatever was happening on the surface”
Alice Underground (former site) - Alice’s favorite store where she bought her sailor pants
Cheever Place, Alice’s apartment in Cobble Hill where she could overhear the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
St. John the Devine - Leonard would take Alice here on Saint Francis Day when they opened the doors to let an elephant in
Jackson Hole - a restaurant that Leonard loved for the enormous burgers
Gray’s Papaya - another favorite restaurant for Alice to eat with her dad
Emack & Bolio’s - birthday celebration of ice cream
V&T - pizza place enjoyed by Leonard and Alice, 110th Street & Amsterdam
Matryoshka - a bar Alice revisited from her younger years on her 40th birthday
Reviews
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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
“The kind of book that will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you call the people you love. Exceptional."—Emily Henry
"Delightful"—Boston Globe
"Poignant"—New York Times
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.