The Time Traveler’s Wife
Audrey Niffenegger's debut love story about a man whose genetic disorder pulls him through time, and the wife who waits for him.
Henry has a genetic disorder that sends him through time without warning. Clare, an art student, first meets him when she is six and he is thirty-six, and they marry when she is twenty-three and he is thirty-one. Audrey Niffenegger’s 2003 debut novel is their love story, told around his sudden disappearances. It became a bestseller, selling nearly 2.5 million copies in the United States and Britain by 2009, and won a British Book Award.
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Gillian Anderson
Her devotion to Henry, who is paradoxically most present to her when he's absent, forces her to gain strength in her solitude.
Article · October 2014
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