The Time's Traveler Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

"A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant.

An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler's Wife is destined to captivate readers for years to come."

This book made me believe a little bit more in the strength and companionship of a romantic relationship, appreciate the loyalty in waiting, and wishing, and not knowing. The Time Traveler's wife is a fantasy, a love story, but it is completely realistic. Henry and Clare are people who exist, because they're living in my head now, with so many dimensions of detail and likes and dislikes and intertwined experiences. This book made me laugh, it made me cry, and most of all it made me hope that such a relationship can really exist. Alba and Henry and Clare, meeting in the past and the future repeatedly until there is no way to distinguish them both, are a family, existing at all times, at any time. Time is nothing, as Henry says, and that is what I've learned.

5/5 stars.