The Time Traveler's Wife

Summary

Henry DeTamble suffers from a genetic disorder that yanks him involuntarily through time, and the novel traces his lifelong love affair with the artist Clare Abshire, who first meets him as a child while he arrives from a future in which they are already married. Niffenegger alternates between the two narrators to build a love story whose chronology loops, overlaps, and forecloses on itself with devastating effect. The novel became an international bestseller and a modern classic of romantic speculative fiction.