The New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers and All
Adults Here combines her trademark charm and wit with a moving
father-daughter story, and a playful twist on the idea of time travel.
What if you could take a vacation to your past?
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On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice's life isn't terrible.* She
likes her job, even if it isn't exactly the one she expected. She's
happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she
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 that
she should do differently this time around? What would she change, given
the chance?
With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, Emma Straub cleverly
turns all the traditional time travel tropes on their head and delivers
a different kind of love story - about the lifelong, reverberating
relationship between a parent and child.
