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Violence
Some
Some thriller danger in the time travel sequences; no graphic violence
Language
Some
Some strong language in a contemporary voice
Sexual Content
Some
Adult romantic relationships across timelines; nothing explicit
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking
Emotional Intensity
Some
The existential weight of accidentally destroying a better world; identity across divergent timelines; a narrator who is likeable despite being a spectacular failure
What this book is about
Tom Barren lives in 2016 — but not the 2016 you know. His version is the utopian world promised by mid-century optimism: clean energy, flying cars, universal abundance. When Tom uses his father's experimental time machine and accidentally unravels the event that created the utopia, he finds himself in our 2016 instead — the complicated, messy, not-exactly-utopian present. Elan Mastai's time travel novel is a comedy of errors built around a deeply sincere question: if the future we were promised didn't happen, is the world we have actually worse? Charming, funny, and smarter than its premise suggests.
Notes for sensitive readers
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time travel paradoxes and romantic complications across timelines
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