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Traveling in time with Emma Straub in her new novel 'This Time Tomorrow'

2022/5/23
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If you could go back in time to when you were 16 years old, what would you change? This question is at the heart of Emma Straub's new novel, This Time Tomorrow, a story about a father-daughter relationship that gives readers a more intimate and personal exploration of time travel. In an interview with All Things Considered, Straub told Mary Louise Kelly that she wrote the novel in 2020 as a way to escape from feeling trapped in quarantine and that, in many ways,the story turned out to be autobiographical.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices)NPR Privacy Policy)