The Here and Now

by Ann Brashares

Release: April 2014
Format: Novel
Genres: Science Fiction, Romance
Audience: Young Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Teenager Prenna James and her mother are two of the survivors of a future plague who return to the early 21st century to live out a quiet life under strict non-interference rules.

— Michael Main

“And then I’ll be a proper early-twenty-first-century girl?” I ask. I feel like crying. I don’t want to be set.”

DEBUT

The Here and Now (Delacorte Press, April 2014) [print · e-book].

VARIANTS

2 English variants

TRANSLATIONS

Czech translation:
[ex=bare]Tady a ted’ | Here and now[/ex] (Egmont, September 2014).
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French translation:
[ex=bare]Ici et maintenant | Here and now[/ex] (Gallimard Jeunesse, June 2014).
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German translation:
[ex=bare]Wer weiß, was Morgen mit uns ist | Who knows what tomorrow will bring to us[/ex] (cbj, September 2014).
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Italian translation:
[ex=bare]Qui e ora | Here and now[/ex] (Rizzoli, August 2014).
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Polish translation:
[ex=bare]Tu i teraz | Here and now[/ex] (YA!, January 2016).
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Portuguese translation:
[ex=bare]Aqui e agora | Here and now[/ex] (Editorial Presença, September 2014).
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Russian translation:
[ex=bare]Здесь и cейчас | Here and now | Zdes i ceychas[/ex] (Азбука [Axbuka], 2015).
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Vietnamese translation:
[ex=bare]Ai biết đâu ngày mai | Here and now[/ex] (Nhã Nam, July 2018).
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8 translations

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 2000 to 2099: from the late 21st century to 2010

Timeline Models

Remembering Different Timelines: Prenna remembers previous headlines from the newspapers

Time Travel Methods

Unexplained Time Travel Methods: We found a passage through time.

Themes

Evacuations through Time: The only colonization scheme that worked was the simplest: colonizing the past.
Fix History!: Some of the travelers believe they have come back to stop the pandemic.
Media from Another Time: newspapers
Nude Travel: an unneeded injection of this trope
Save “Lois”!: Prenna is set on going against the rules to save her loved one, Ethan. The use of this tag isn't the usual fare where the loved one is first killed and then the traveler goes back to save him or her.
Time Cabal: the authoritarian group that controls all the travelers

Real-World Tags

Pandemics, Epidemics, and Bio-Disasters: the future mosquito-borne disease

Fictional Tags

Post-Apocalyptic and Post-Holocaust Worlds: the world that Prenna and the others came from

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From an unspecified place in the late 21st century at an unknown time ⋙ to Haverstraw Creek, 23 April 2010. Note: Prenna lands in the river where Ethan was fishing.