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Time After Time by Lisa Grunwald
4.0
This is a book about an impossible love--or is it?
Joe Reynolds who works as a leverman at Grand Central Terminal, sees a young woman standing at the station's iconic gold clock, and is immediately smitten. It's very early on a cold December morning, and the woman has no coat or suitcase, and is wearing an out or date dress--it's 1937 and she looks like someone from the '20s. The two chat, are very taken with each other, and then she vanishes. Joe, a working class guy from Queens, does not know what to make of this, but he can't forget her. He waits for her, searches, and finally, she reappears.
Joe and Nora will face many obstacles besides being from different time periods, not just that she will not age but he will, that she wants to live the fullest life she can, while she can, as an artist, a woman, and a human, while his close knit family has taught him women's only desire is to be wives and mothers.
There is a great deal of charm in the story as Nora and Joe test time and an astrophysical phenomenon to be together. Lisa Grunwald does a wonderful job describing the like of Grand Central, the people, the personalities, the incredible amenities, the feeling of belonging. It's a magical place in an magical time, with magical things occurring within its walls with a phenomenon of light as a backdrop.
"Time After Time" is a lovely read, charming and moving, and a tribute to that impossible love.
Joe Reynolds who works as a leverman at Grand Central Terminal, sees a young woman standing at the station's iconic gold clock, and is immediately smitten. It's very early on a cold December morning, and the woman has no coat or suitcase, and is wearing an out or date dress--it's 1937 and she looks like someone from the '20s. The two chat, are very taken with each other, and then she vanishes. Joe, a working class guy from Queens, does not know what to make of this, but he can't forget her. He waits for her, searches, and finally, she reappears.
Joe and Nora will face many obstacles besides being from different time periods, not just that she will not age but he will, that she wants to live the fullest life she can, while she can, as an artist, a woman, and a human, while his close knit family has taught him women's only desire is to be wives and mothers.
There is a great deal of charm in the story as Nora and Joe test time and an astrophysical phenomenon to be together. Lisa Grunwald does a wonderful job describing the like of Grand Central, the people, the personalities, the incredible amenities, the feeling of belonging. It's a magical place in an magical time, with magical things occurring within its walls with a phenomenon of light as a backdrop.
"Time After Time" is a lovely read, charming and moving, and a tribute to that impossible love.