The Time Traveler's Wife
Published: 2003
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Genres: Adult, Fiction, Literary, Romance, Science Fiction, Time Travel
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Summary
The story recounts the lives of Henry DeTamble, a librarian at Chicago's Newberry Library, and his wife, Clare Anne Abshire, a paper sculpture artist, through alternate first-person narratives. Henry has a rare inherited ailment known as Chrono-Impairment. Because of his condition, Henry unwittingly travels across time. Clare, 20, encounters 28-year-old Henry at the Newberry Library in 1991, and despite the fact that she has known him for most of her life; he has never seen her before.
At the age of five, Henry begins time travel, going ahead and backward in his own history. He has no control over when he vanishes, where he travels, or how long his journeys will endure. His vacation locations, on the other hand, are linked to his subconscious—he frequently visits places and periods from his own past. Henry's time travel is triggered by certain situations, such as stress, and he often goes running to be calm and in the present.
In the future, he looks for medications that might help him regulate his time travel. He also consults with Dr. Kendrick, a geneticist. Henry can't carry anything with him into the future or the past, thus he always comes nude and has to fend for himself in terms of clothes, shelter, and food. Lock-picking, self-defense, and pick-pocketing are among the survival skills he has acquired. He learns a lot of this from previous incarnations of himself.
Henry begins to travel to Clare's infancy and adolescence in South Haven, Michigan, beginning in 1977 when she is just six years old when their timelines "naturally" overlap at the library—their first encounter in his chronology. Henry provides Clare a list of the dates he will appear on one of his early trips (from Clare's perspective), which she puts in a notebook so she would remember to supply him with clothing and food when he arrives.
Henry mistakenly mentions that they will marry in the future during another visit. They form a tight bond over time. Henry assists Clare in frightening and humiliating a boy who has harmed her. In 1989, on Clare's eighteenth birthday, Henry pays her a visit, during which they make love for the first time. After that, they are separated for two years until they reunite in the library.
Clare and Henry marry in the end. Clare has problems carrying a pregnancy to term soon after their marriage, owing to the genetic defect Henry is likely passing on to the baby. After six miscarriages, Henry decides to get a vasectomy to spare Clare any more suffering. However, a past-incarnation of Henry pays Clare a visit one night and the two make love; she later gives birth to a daughter called Alba.
Alba, like Henry, possesses Chrono-Impairment, although she has some control over where she goes through time. Henry travels to the future and meets his ten-year-old daughter on a school field trip before she is born. Unfortunately, he learns during this journey that he will die when Alba is five years old.
Henry time travels to a Chicago parking garage on a chilly winter night when he is 43, during what is to be his final year of life when he is unable to find refuge. His feet are amputated when he returns to the present day as a result of the hypothermia and frostbite he gets while sleeping in the parking garage. Henry and Clare both know that if he doesn't have the capacity to escape when he time travels, he'll die within the next several leaps. Henry time travels into the Michigan woods in 1984 on New Year's Eve 2006 and is inadvertently shot by Clare's brother, a situation foretold previously in the novel. In Clare's embrace, Henry returns to the present day and dies.
Henry's death has left Clare saddened. She subsequently discovers a note from Henry, in which he asks her to "stop waiting" for him while also describing a time in the future when she will see him again. When Clare is 82 years old and Henry is 43, the couple reunites. The novel's last scene has Clare, who is well into her senior years, waiting for Henry as she has done for much of her life.
Rating: 100/100
Recommended: 100/100 Yes.
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