The Time Traveler's Wife

Henry DeTamble has a rare genetic condition that pulls him, without warning or control, out of the present and into other moments of his own life — sometimes the past, sometimes the future, always arriving naked and disoriented. Clare Abshire has known Henry since she was a child, because an older Henry has been visiting her all her life. For Clare, their love has always been a certainty; for Henry, it is a mystery still unfolding.

Told in fragments that leap across the timeline of their relationship, Audrey Niffenegger's novel follows Henry and Clare as they try to build an ordinary life — marriage, home, the hope of children — around an extraordinary and often cruel impossibility. Their story is one of waiting, absence, and the fierce persistence of love across time.

Tender, inventive, and quietly devastating, The Time Traveler's Wife is a modern love story that uses its speculative premise to ask what it means to commit to a person you can never fully hold on to.