Book Review: This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
Publisher: ‎ Riverhead Books
Publication Date: May 17, 2022
My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Publisher’s Description:

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?

This Time Tomorrow is an interesting take on time travel and has elements of Peggy Sue Got Married and Back to the Future as well. Even so, I found it to be original. Alice wakes up on her 40th birthday discovering that she is 16 again. Her father, who had been dying in the hospital in the present time, is his spry younger self. Alice’s fervent hope is to change the past so that her father can live longer and happier in the present. Is that even possible and if so is it a good, idea? You’ll have to read to find out!

Emma Straub is one of my favorite authors and this book did not disappoint. Highly recommended.

Other books by Emma Straub I’ve reviewed:

Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures
The Vacationers
All Adults Here