This Time Tomorrow

hospital then, in a room that felt more like an underdecorated hotel room than an operating theater, with a photograph of Mars that he'd torn out of the New York Times taped to the wall, alongside a photo of his ancient and powerful cat, Ursula. She wondered whether someone had taken those things and put them with the rest of his belongings his wallet, his telephone, whatever actual clothing he'd been wearing when he checked in, the stack of paperback books he'd brought with him or whether they'd been thrown away in one of the giant flip-top waste bins that lined the sterile hallways.
 
When someone asked how her father was doing Emily, who she shared a desk with in the admissions office; or Sam, her best friend from high school, who had three children, a husband, a house in Montclair, and a closet full of high heels to wear to her job at a terrifying law firm; or her boyfriend, Matt Alice wished for an easy answer. The longer it went on, the more the question turned into an empty phrase, the way one might say How are you? to an acquaintance passing on the sidewalk and keep walking. There were no tumors to excise, no germs to fight. It was just that many neighborhoods of Leonard's body were falling apart in a great, unified chorus: his heart, his kidneys, his liver. Alice understood now, as she never truly had before, how the body was a Rube Goldberg machine, and every time one domino or lever got knocked sideways, the whole thing would stop. When the doctors poked their heads into the ICU, it was just the word failure, over and over again. They were all waiting for her father to die. It could be days or weeks or months, no one was quite able to say. One of the worst parts of the whole thing, Alice understood, was that doctors were almost always guessing. They were smart people, and the guesses were informed by tests and trials and years of experience, but they were guessing nonetheless.
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. . . Combine Straub's usual warmth and insight with the fun of time travel and you have a winner. Kirkus, STARRED review

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

Brimming with whimsy and humor, the story of a young woman s second chance at life is grounded by the unforced father-daughter relationship at its center. Come for the nostalgia, stay for the tenderness. Elle

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

Emma Straub is most famous for her wry, warm novels exploring how our relationships shape, delight, wound, and, ultimately, sustain us [and] the tone of the book is pure Straub: a funny, moving look at the most important relationship in one woman s life This Time Tomorrow is a case of come-for-the-wacky-time-warp/stay-for-the-timeless-wisdom In the end, the most remarkable thing about This Time Tomorrow isn t that Straub manages to make us believe the main character is a time traveler; it s that she forces us to realize we all are. Oprah Daily

The always delightful, deeply beloved Emma Straub returns with a novel that seems like her take on 13-going-on-30 . It s Straub, so you know it s going to be funny, touching, and filled with family drama. Glamour

"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
 
Has a lot of heart, some satisfying plot twists and a bittersweet, open-ended finale. BookPage, Starred review

Straub excels at capturing the essence of a specific place and time from Mallorca to the Hudson Valley. In doing that, she reflects back to us an image of the people we want to be. Within her sprawling cast of characters, there often is a better version of the person we want to be. Straub s novels are a bit of fun, comfort amidst the turmoil of the pandemic. The Chicago Review of Books

One of the most moving and intelligent time travel novels I have ever read. Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love." Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

"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

A beautifully made, elegant music box of a novel that sets in motion its clever clockwork of delight then breaks your heart with its bittersweet, lingering song. Michael Chabon, New York Times bestselling author of Moonglow

I just finished This Time Tomorrow and I m crying at its message and its honesty and its utter beauty. And now I have to go call my mom. Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here

This Time Tomorrow is that rare one-in-a-million novel that not only pulls you wholly into itself, but leaves a lasting mark when it finally releases you. Never has Straub's writing been more incisive, clever, and emotionally generous which is really saying something. The kind of book that will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you call the people you love. Exceptional." Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of People We Meet on Vacation

So big-hearted and poignant, I could not bear to put it down. I laughed and cried. Wonderful. Kate Baer, author of I Hope This Finds You Well