Emma Straub

One of the most moving and intelligent time travel novels I have ever read. Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love.

As always, Straub creates characters who feel fully alive, exploring the subtleties of their thoughts, feelings, and relationships. . . . Combine Straub’s usual warmth and insight with the fun of time travel and you have a winner.

Even if the premise of This Time Tomorrow is a flight from realism, the scope of Alice’s concerns is human-scale and plausible. . .although her travels through time allow her to reconsider her romantic history, the person whose past she is most eager to set right is her father, a man whose imminent mortality deepens the novel’s ambient nostalgia into something pressing and poignant.

What if you could go back in time to be with your elderly dying parent when they were young and healthy? Emma Straub turns this question into reality in her fifth and delightful novel. . . How do we talk with each other about things that really matter?. . .Straub is wise enough to know that despite having ample time, it’s never enough.

I can hardly remember the last time I read anything that brought me such pure joy. I was up too late reading, then got up too early to go back to reading. All I wanted was American Fantasy. It brims with truth and humanity and insight, and it made me snort like a pig. I loved it. I think the entire country will love it.

Straub depicts a wonderfully immersive world…A delightfully nostalgic novel about how the things we loved in the past have the power to shape our future.

As wickedly funny as it is achingly earnest…Straub has a blast with the shipboard absurdity, but she grants every character—including the men being watched from a thousand angles—a layered inner life. A fizzy escapist thrill ride with real insights on the isolation of celebrity, the community of fandom, and the liberation of middle age.