This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

Monday, Mar. 20, 2023--San Antonio

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub, named as a top read of the year it was released by EW, is different.  With a theme of time travel involved, one would think it would be for young adults, but it is about a 40-year old woman questioning the decisions she has made in her life rather than about teenagers.  The daughter of a man who has written a classic adolescent literature novel about two boys who time travel to solve crimes, she has had a privileged life--attended an exclusive private school and lived in an exclusive neighborhood in New York, yet she is working as an admissions officer at the same school she attended, has not gotten married and has no children.  She is mostly happy and contented with her life, but she can't help but wonder if she has missed out by not having been more successful in her career nor married a classmate who she loved and has become successful.  Plus, she has now passed the time when it would have been best to have tried to have a child and, although she loves her father, does not have a very close relationship with him anymore.  As the book proceeds, she accidentally discovers something that her father has known for years.  It leads them to become closer and causes her to question her life even more.  I gave the book 4 stars out of 5.