Favorite Book : The Time Traveler's Wife

The debut novel of Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler’s Wife is a timeless love story mixed with a science fiction twist. An unconventional love story that jumps around through time, just as Henry does. We follow the life of Clare as a young child meeting who she will later identify as her future husband, who is coming from the future where they are already married. And we follow the life of Henry, jumping around from present to past to future and even encountering himself during another time. It sounds complicated and hard to follow, but Niffenegger mastered the in depth detail of time traveling, which allowed her to perfectly weave the story together in a way that audiences can follow and become emotionally invested in.

The story starts out with Clare bumping into Henry, someone she obviously knows, while he has no clue who she is. That is because Henry time travelers, not by choice, but because of an uncontrollable genetic malfunction. At the beginning of the story, Henry has never met Clare, but Clare has spent her entire young life meeting an older Henry in a meadow behind her house. The older Henry she knows, comes from the future where they are already married, Henry’s present day, future for Clare.

Though time travel is not an original idea, the way that Niffenegger has structured the story, the audiences become so involved in the suspense that Henry could have an episode and disappear any moment, leaving Clare alone to wonder where in time he has gone and if he is visiting her as a child. A story that causes you to laugh, cry, and suffer just as the characters do. A great read that you will read over and over again, hoping that some how, the time that has passed since you last read it, changes something.