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Violence
None
No violence; a parent's terminal illness
Language
Barely any
Mild language throughout
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult romantic relationship in Alice's present-day life
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking; 1990s party context for teen characters
Emotional Intensity
Some
The grief of losing a parent slowly, the knowledge that the best days of a relationship are already past, the impossibility of time
What this book is about
Alice Sharp is turning 40 the same day her father is in the hospital, likely dying. The morning after a birthday she barely celebrated, she wakes up in 1996 — sixteen years old, in her childhood bedroom, and her father Leonard is the same age she is now. Alice has a chance to spend time with the man she's about to lose: to understand who he was, and who she is. Emma Straub's time-travel novel is a tender, melancholy love letter to fathers and daughters, and to the places in time we'd give anything to return to.
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a parent's dying is the central emotional premise
teen drinking in the 1990s timeline
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