Books and
Cooks West
May 2006
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
Dawn and Jared's place
Saturday, May 6 at 5:30 PM
Our rating: 4 cups of tea!
From Booklist
On the surface, Henry and Clare Detamble are a normal couple living in
Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Henry works at the Newberry
Library and Clare creates abstract paper art, but the cruel reality is
that Henry is a prisoner of time. It sweeps him back and forth at its
leisure, from the present to the past, with no regard for where he is
or what he is doing. It drops him naked and vulnerable into another
decade, wearing an age-appropriate face. In fact, it's not unusual for
Henry to run into the other Henry and help him out of a jam. Sound
unusual? Imagine Clare Detamble's astonishment at seeing Henry dropped
stark naked into her parents' meadow when she was only six. Though, of
course, until she came of age, Henry was always the perfect gentleman
and gave young Clare nothing but his friendship as he dropped in and
out of her life. It's no wonder that the film rights to this hip and
urban love story have been acquired. Elsa Gaztambide
