Fiction by Emma Straub
The story is about Alice, a single woman in New York City in 2021. She's about to turn forty, and she has a good job and a nice apartment and even a boyfriend, but she's not sure if she's really living her "best life," whatever that is. Plus her beloved father is dying, and she doesn't feel like she has had enough time to show him how much she loves him.
Then Alice gets a chance to go back in time and possibly change things; but what is it that she really wants to change?
According to an article I read, the author called this book "an autobiographical time travel novel," so I assume Alice is (sort of) Emma, and Emma is exploring her own ideas about what her "best life" is, and what relationships really matter to her.
So this is more a character story than a time-travel story, but it does have one important time-travel-story element: the time-travel follows a set of rules that fits inside the parameters of the book and does not fluctuate. (I don't care for the no-rules kind of time travel; see also If I Could Turn Back Time.)
This was a good story with believable characters that gives you something to think about.
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