This book, perhaps intended for posterity or a wide audience, passes over any stressful signifiers of the modern day, beyond Alice’s momentary frantic search for her iPhone. If you could travel back to 1996 for 24 hours, how would you spend that time? Would you run around, frantic, grabbing people by the lapels, trying to warn them about the coming global heat wave, a fiction-based news complex and a virus that would steal taste, smell and too many lives? Or would you drink in the sight of your loved ones in an earlier era - your older parents, their youth and vitality restored, or maybe your adult children, once again tiny creatures toddling toward you, arms forever outstretched?Īlice, the time-traveling heroine of Emma Straub’s sixth novel, “This Time Tomorrow,” never really contemplates any variations on the first option.
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