Straub, Emma

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May 23, 2022

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Novelist Emma Straub asks life's big questions in 'This Time Tomorrow'

Straub's new novel is a time-travel fantasy about a 40-year-old woman who's tending to her ailing father — until, that is, the day she's transported to her childhood home on her 16th birthday.

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Emma Straub

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April 30, 2026

17:23

3 spring novels star trad wives, grown-up boy band fans, and a pregnant septuagenarian

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN recommends three new novels: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke, American Fantasy by Emma Straub, and Enormous Wings by Laurie Frankel.

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Emma Straub

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Novelist Emma Straub asks life's big questions in 'This Time Tomorrow'

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3 spring novels star trad wives, grown-up boy band fans, and a pregnant septuagenarian

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