This Time Tomorrow will hit shelves in May 2022, just in time for summer reading.
Emma Straub knows how to keep a secret.
Here’s the official synopsis:
What if you could take a vacation to your past?
Emma Straub.Melanie Dunea
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.
But something is missing.
‘This Time Tomorrow,’ by Emma Straub.Penguin
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?
What would she change, given the chance?
Get a first look at the cover ofThis Time Tomorrowbelow.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How and when did the idea for this book come to you?
What was the inspiration?
I started writing that October, a year ago.
I haven’t written a novel this quickly since before I had children.
How did the writing of this book help you through the pandemic?
When I finally had childcare and some in-person school, I was ready.
I have never been more happy to work in my life.
It was sort of like my therapist, only the book didn’t charge me by the hour.
What can you tell us about the meaning of the book’s title?
The book is about a woman looking at her choices and wondering what could have been different.
Where would you be, if you could be somewhere else, this time tomorrow?
How did you manage to keep the book a secret?
This book is so personal that it felt necessary to keep things a bit close.
I certainly talked to my friends and co-workers about the book, but even that felt private.
Really, I just kept it off the internet as much as I could.
I guess I wanted to keep it just mine for as long as I could.
What’s your favorite ’90s pop culture reference in the book?
That is an impossible choice.
The Caboodles, the landline, the cigarettes.
It’s all there.
The stores and restaurants in my neighborhood that are gone.
Writing the book made me feel like I had all those things back.
That and hot dogs.
