This Time Tomorrow
- by Emma Straub
- Novel
- Fantasy
- YA and Up
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub (Riverhead Books, May 2022.
After turning forty in a snit because of her career decisions, her unexciting boyfriend, and her dying father, Alice Stern wakes up on her 16th birthday in her teen body.
—Michael Main
“I know it’s your birthday,” Leonard said. “You’ve made me watch Sixteen Candles enough times to ensure that I wouldn’t let this one slide.”
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1970 to 1999: target time period of 1996
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: starting time period of 2020
- Timeline Models
- Do Over
- In a Changed Timeline, You Don’t Remember Your Changed Life: Each time Annie returns to her present day, she goes into her changed life with little or no knowledge of her new life.
- Multiple Naive Timelines
- Resilient Timeline: Cosmic inertia makes it hard to change things.
- Sensing Unfamiliar Timelines
- Themes
- Fix Your Love Life!: Although even when she does end up with her teenage crush, she remains unhappy.
- Fix Your Own Past!: Alice believes she can fix her fatherr, her love life, and her career all by changing the choices she made on her sixteenth birthday.
- Repeat until You Get It Right: The focus is on Alice redoing her sixteenth birthday until she changes her father, her love life, and/or her career.
- Save Your Family!: Alice wants to change her father’s behavior so that he doesn’t end up in the hospital in 2020.
- Time Travel Sickness, Injuries, and Mixed-Up Body Parts: Alice herself says it feels like double vision, a little bit wobblier; and she also blames her father’s sickness on his time travel.
- Travels into Yourself
- Young Again!
Variants
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- This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub (Riverhead Books, May 2022.
- audio reading.
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub (Penguin Audio, May 2022.