The Time Traveler's Wife

this Innovative Debut Is The Story Of Clare, A Beautiful Art Student, And Henry, An Adventuresome Librarian, Who Have Known Each Other Since Clare Was Six And Henry Was Thirty-six, And Were Married When Clare Was Twenty-three And Henry Thirty-one. Impossible But True, Because Henry Is One Of The First People Diagnosed With Chrono-displacement Disorder: Triggered By Emotions And Memories, His Genetic Clock Resets And He Finds Himself Misplaced In Time. His Disappearances Are Spontaneous And His Experiences Are Unpredictable. Through Henry's Time Travel The Couple Attempt To Live Normal Lives, But All Of This Is Threatened By Something Neither Can Control.

the New Yorker

young Lovers Often Believe Themselves Crossed By Fate Or By Time, But Those In Niffenegger’s Spirited First Novel Have More Reason Than Most. Henry Suffers From Chrono-impairment—a Quasi-medical Condition That Catapults Him, Unwillingly, From One Random Point In Time To Another. Clare First Meets Him In 1977, When She Is Six And He Materializes Near Her Parents’ Garden As A Thirty-six-year-old From 2000; He Returns Regularly Throughout Her Childhood From Different Times In Their Shared Future. At Last, When Clare Is Twenty And Henry Twenty-eight, They Meet In his Present, And The Relationship Begins In Earnest. But Romance Proves Even Trickier Than Usual When One Person Keeps Vanishing To Distant, And Occasionally Dangerous, Times. Niffenegger Plays Ingeniously In Her Temporal Hall Of Mirrors, But Fails To Make The Connection Between The Lovers As Compelling As Their Odd Predicament.