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=Book Summary= On the surface, Henry and Clare Detamble are a normal couple living in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Henry works at the Newberry Library and Clare creates abstract paper art, but the cruel reality is that Henry is a prisoner of time. It sweeps him back and forth at its leisure, from the present to the past, with no regard for where he is or what he is doing. It drops him naked and vulnerable into another decade, wearing an age-appropriate face. In fact, it's not unusual for Henry to run into the other Henry and help him out of a jam. Sound unusual? Imagine Clare Detamble's astonishment at seeing Henry dropped stark naked into her parents' meadow when she was only six. Though, of course, until she came of age, Henry was always the perfect gentleman and gave young Clare nothing but his friendship as he dropped in and out of her life. --//Elsa Gaztambide////. Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved//

=About the Author=

Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and a faculty member at Columbia College in Chicago. In addition to her bestselling debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, she is the author of two illustrated novels, The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress. She lives in Chicago. =Possible Discussion Questions= 1. In //The Time Traveler’s Wife//, the characters meet each other at various times during their lifetime. How does the author keep all the timelines in order and “on time”? 2. Although Henry does the time traveling, Clare is equally impacted. How does she cope with his journeys and does she ultimately accept them? 3. How does the writer introduce the reader to the concept of time travel as a realistic occurrence? Does she succeed? 4. Henry’s life is disrupted on multiple levels by spontaneous time travel. How does his career as a librarian offset his tumultuous disappearances? Why does that job appeal to Henry? 5. Henry and Clare know each other for years before they fall in love as adults. How does Clare cope with the knowledge that at a young age she knows that Henry is the man she will eventually marry? 6. //The Time Traveler’s Wife// is ultimately an enduring love story. What trials and tribulations do Henry and Clare face that are the same as or different from other “normal” relationships? 7. How does their desire for a child affect their relationship? 8. The book is told from both Henry and Clare’s perspectives. What does this add to the story? 9. Do you think the ending of the novel is satisfactory? 10. Though history there have been dozens of mediums used for time travel in literature. Please site examples and compare //The Time Traveler’s Wife// to the ones with which you are familiar. // ( Questions issued by publisher .) //