Straub is the daughter of Peter Straub, the author of numerous horror and supernatural novels, including Ghost Story and Shadowland.
With the wisdom of her 40-year-old self, she wishes she could get him to change his habits - quit smoking, eat vegetables, exercise, remarry - to prolong his life. Traveling back in time, Alice is amazed at how young and healthy her father was at 49. Mostly, they hang out and float, like seahorses, walking and talking. Though never one to make balanced meals, take her camping, or set many rules - even for himself - he is one of the most appealing fathers in literature. Leonard, who raised Alice as a single parent after her flaky mother left them when Alice was 6, tellingly calls her Al-pal. Its success enabled him to buy the quaint, dollhouse-sized Pomander Walk townhouse where Alice grew up, and to send his only child to the prestigious Belvedere School, where she still works.
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When, after a night of too many drinks celebrating her 40th birthday, she wakes up back in her childhood bedroom on the morning of her not-entirely-sweet 16th, she wonders if, by tweaking the day, she can change the way her life and her father's have played out.Īlice's father, Leonard, is the author of a famous time travel novel called Time Brothers, which was made into a popular TV series. In This Time Tomorrow, Alice Stern, faced with the imminent death of her beloved 73-year-old father, confronts her own stasis, stuck for years in the same tiny studio apartment and the same job in the admissions department of the Upper West Side Manhattan private school she attended decades earlier. Emma Straub's fifth novel is an entertaining charmer that unleashes the magic of time travel to sweeten its exploration of potentially heavy themes like mortality, the march of time, and how little decisions can alter your life.
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