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The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger, deals with the trials and tribulations of Henry DeTamble, a man who involuntary travels through time and how his wife, Clare, deals with his strange disorder as she meets him periodically through her young life, and then struggles with the danger and unpredictability that comes with being married to a time traveler. 
Niffenegger wrote the novel through the eyes of both Clare and Henry, taking place in the past, present and occasionally future as it tells the story of their lives together. Due to Henry’s time traveling, Clare had known the adult Henry her entire life, before they finally met in the present and got married. The book follows the couple’s lives as they struggle to have a child and live a normal life, and as Clare learns to cope with having a husband who disappears periodically and is in danger whenever he is away.
As the years roll on, Henry, who has never met his future self older than forty-three years old, learns tragic secrets about the future through time travel. He struggles with the ideas of God and free will as he often tries and fails to prevent horrible occurrences that he knows will happen. As the book progresses, Henry learns more about the genetic disorder that has plagued him his whole life and learns more about the future from his older selves.
Clare, in the meantime, fights to have a baby as she deals with miscarriages resulting from the fetus time traveling out of her womb, and she works to keep her beloved husband with her and out of danger. The time traveling poses many serious problems for the couple, and the novel ends with a bang, which will not soon be forgotten.
This love story with a twist is a must-read for everyone – hopeless romantics, thrill seekers, science fiction lovers, and those who enjoy a good cry. Niffenegger covers all the bases in her wonderfully written first novel.
Although the book is somewhat hard to follow in the beginning as it jumps around in time, the reader soon acquires a feel for where each character is chronologically and the story becomes much easier to follow. The characters’ emotions are realistic, and the reader can relate to both Henry and Clare’s plights, even in such an unrealistic situation as time travel.
Along with providing a fascinating story line, with a satisfying ending, Niffenegger offers the reader ideas to ponder about free will. She asks that if the future has already happened to Henry, does anyone really have any choices in their lives? It is a question that Henry and Clare struggle with throughout the novel, and the reader will continue to ponder such ideas long after they put down the book.
The Time Traveler’s Wife is a thought-provoking, twisted love story that anyone who appreciates good fiction should read.
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First Published:
Aug 2003, 518 pages
Paperback:
May 2004, 560 pages

Clare: It's hard being left behind. I wait for Henry, not knowing where he is, wondering if he's okay. It's hard to be the one who stays.

I keep myself busy. Time goes faster that way.

I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence?

Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for Henry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow?

Henry: How does it feel? How does it feel?

Sometimes it feels as though your attention has wandered for just an instant. Then, with a start, you realize that the book you were holding, the red plaid cotton shirt with white buttons, the favorite black jeans and the maroon socks with an almost-hole in one heel, the living room, the about-to-whistle tea kettle in the kitchen: all of these have vanished. You are standing, naked as a jaybird, up to your ankles in ice water in a ditch along an unidentified rural route. You wait a minute to see if maybe you will just snap right back to your book, your apartment, et cetera. After about five minutes of swearing and shivering and hoping to hell you can just disappear, you start walking in any direction, which will eventually yield a farmhouse, where you have the option of stealing or explaining. Stealing will sometimes land you in jail, but explaining is more tedious and time consuming and involves lying anyway, and also sometimes results in being hauled off to jail, so what the hell.

Sometimes you feel as though you have stood up too quickly even if you are lying in bed half asleep. You hear blood rushing in your head, feel vertiginous falling sensations. Your hands and feet are tingling and then they aren't there at all. You've mislocated yourself again. It only takes an instant, you have just enough time to try to hold on, to flail around (possibly damaging yourself or valuable possessions) and then you are skidding across the forest green carpeted hallway of a Motel 6 in Athens, Ohio, at 4:16 a.m., Monday, August 6, 1981, and hit your head on someone's door, causing this person, a Ms. Tina Schulman from Philadelphia, to open this door and start screaming because there's a naked, carpet-burned man passed out at her feet. You wake up in the County Hospital concussed with a policeman sitting outside your door listening to the Phillies game on a crackly transistor radio. Mercifully, you lapse back into unconsciousness and wake up again hours later in your own bed with your wife leaning over you looking very worried.

Sometimes you feel euphoric. Everything is sublime and has an aura, and suddenly you are intensely nauseated and then you are gone. You are throwing up on some suburban geraniums, or your father's tennis shoes, or your very own bathroom floor three days ago, or a wooden sidewalk in Oak Park, Illinois circa 1903, or a tennis court on a fine autumn day in the 1950s, or your own naked feet in a wide variety of times and places.

How does it feel?

It feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take a test you haven't studied for and you aren't wearing any clothes. And you've left your wallet at home.

When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a trick, an illusion of the highest order, so incredible that I am actually true.

Excerpted from The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. Copyright Audrey Niffenegger 2003. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without permission from the publisher, MacAdam Cage.
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