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Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife is an incredibly moving and original love story.
This touching novel is anything but typical. Clare Abshire and Henry DeTamble’s love is tested by Henry’s rare ability to time travel.
Their relationship is unlike any other.
Henry has a rare gene mutation causing him to sporadically disappear from his present and reappear at another point in time. It is in his travels through the past and the future that he meets his love Clare.
Clare grows up with “future Henry” popping in and out of her life as he travels to her from his present time.
As Clare grows up, Henry is her secret companion and later, in her adolescence, her secret love.
Eventually, when Clare is 18, Henry’s visits fade away as they are destined to meet each other in present time.
The book follows Clare’s sequential life.
The first half of the book being her whimsical childhood where Henry magically appears and the second half being her adult life where she faces the real problems of having a time traveling husband.
Together Clare and Henry withstand family tragedy, parenting complications and the fear and loneliness evoked by time travel.
The Time Traveler’s Wife tells the story of a love so deep and true it can withstand the trap of time travel.
This novel takes the reader through an unbelievably wild love story; through the excitement and newness of young love, to the difficulties of marriage, to the ramifications of a lifetime of time traveling.
The Time Traveler’s Wife captures the reader in this unconventional romance and tale of fate and destiny.
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