Betsy's Books

The phrase, "If only I could go back in time" takes on a different meaning in Emma Straub's This Time Tomorrow. Approaching her 40th birthday, Alice likes her life. She has an amazing best friend, but her career is fizzling out and her father is deteriorating in a hospital bed. While struggling with the feeling of missing something, she wakes up back in 1996. With Alice's desperate trips to the past, Straub takes readers on a different time travel journey. One that leaves you yearning for more, helplessly hopeful for a daughter trying to save her ailing father. This love story is about the bond between a father and daughter. Straub uses warmth, humor and fun 90’s nostalgia, as well as a nod to her love of NYC to lighten the story. An alluring and heart tugging picture of a father and daughter relationship, of friendship, of life, and its joys, love, loss, grief and challenges is painted wonderfully by Straub. This is a gloriously engaging, hopeful and entrancing read.