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Book Discussion

Love books? Join our discussion of both fiction and nonfiction titles. Books are available at the branch one month before the discussion. This month we'll discuss "This Time Tomorrow" by Emma Straub.

What if you could take a vacation to your past without the filter of memory? What would you give to go back in time and relive your youth, in person, with the people who shared it?

On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice's life isn't terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn't exactly what she expected. She's happy with her apartment, romantic status, independence, and adores her lifelong best friend. But something is missing. Her father, the single parent who raised her, is ailing and out of reach. How did they get here so fast? Did she take too much for granted along the way? When Alice wakes up the next morning somehow back in 1996, it isn't her 16-year-old body that is the biggest shock or the possibility of romance with her adolescent crush; it's her dad: the vital, charming, 49-year-old version of her father with whom she is reunited.

Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, is there anything she should do differently this time? What would she change, given a chance? With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, Emma Straub cleverly turns all the traditional time-travel tropes on their head. She delivers a different kind of love story - about the lifelong, reverberating relationship between a parent and child.

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