Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Day 3: Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger


            It’s a story about a boy meets girl. She’s known him since she was six and he was three decades older. He met her in his twenties, and she’s already an adult then. Henry DeTamble is a time traveler. A genetic anomaly causes him to travel through time, leaving everything not organically part of his body behind. Although Henry usually views this as a curse, traveling to Clare is the one day in a thousand that it might not be so bad. It’s a great story that uses the time traveling as a backdrop and a metaphor for both long distance relationships and communication between couples. Niffenegger explores the nature of love and the trials of making relationships work.

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