A fiendishly clever, nostalgic, and tender novel about how we must cherish what we have while there is still time
A fiendishly clever, nostalgic, and tender novel about how we must cherish what we have while there is still time
Alice Stern isn't ready to turn forty. She thought she'd have it figured out by now, and have spent more time with her father Leonard, who is very sick. When she wakes up outside their old apartment on her birthday, she's surprised to see a much younger Leonard, with a sixteenth birthday card for Alice, who is rapidly approaching adulthood . . . Alice soon realises she can keep coming back. Faced each time with different versions of her life, and the consequences of her decisions, Alice must not to lose sight of what she wants most- some time back with Leonard . . .
Emma Straub is the New York Times bestselling author of four novels, The Vacationers , Modern Lovers , Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures , All Adults Here and the short story collection Other People We Married. Her books have been published in twenty countries. She and her husband own Books Are Magic, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn, New York.