The Time Traveler's Wife

My best friend Ken Moore turned me on to this book. Yes, you are all my best friends, get over it. I started reading it and Cider House Rules on the same day right after I finished Reading The Broom Of The System. Ken's son Daniel recommended Broom. I won't. The author, David Wallace could have played more with some of his deeper themes for me, particularly the part about being told. He does some side stories and play that pleases my story loving self. Anyway, we'll leave that one alone, we're talking about a different book today. I ended up leaving House sit next to my power spot while I finished the Wife. I'm ready to get back to Wilbur and Homer at the orphanage.

Time Travel. Yum. My last such themed read was Replay. I loved that one too. The Time Traveler's Wife is another love story with a super fine twist. Henry travels forwards and backwards. He meets Clare his wife when she is a little girl in a meadow. She believes in him right away, and waits ever so patiently and powerfully for the day when she meets him in real time. She waits for him forever really. He shows up from their future naked and hungry. She always has food and clothes for him. She always has everything for him forever. She meets him in the real world when she is a woman. She sees him in her future from his past too. The ending is amazing, a subtle twist in time and blessedness.

Her love for him is the real juice in this story, made straight from the fruit of his love for her. Audrey gets us close inside both of these two, which is one of my favorite forms of bravery and style. She tells a damn good tale here. Anyone from Chicago will probably recognize much of the scenes for she doesn't hesitate to vividly cast her story where she lives. Street names. I bet you could Google Earth most of the books locales. The book jacket says this is her first novel, and Google says she has others. Would love to hear from anyone who's read anymore of her work. I heartily recommend the book. Like I said, there's a bit too much Chicago for me, and some of the details of making paper art are more than I want, but the story telling is brave and warm and hot where it needs to be.