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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief romantic content; appropriate for adult literary fiction
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking; a parent's health and decline is part of the story
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate emotional weight: a parent's terminal illness, regret, and the longing to change the past are the novel's emotional core
What this book is about
The night before her fortieth birthday, Alice wakes up sixteen years old in 1996 — her father Leonard alive and well, before the long illness that is slowly claiming him in her present. Emma Straub's warm, emotionally intelligent novel is about what we would say to the people we love if we could go back, about the version of yourself you left behind at sixteen, and about the strange grief of watching a parent age. A time-travel story that uses its genre lightly and its emotional material with great precision.
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