Literary Fiction
The Time Traveler's Wife
2003·537 pages
A time-traveling librarian and an artist navigate a complex, emotional love story across time.
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A time-traveling librarian and an artist navigate a complex, emotional love story across time.
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Audrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emo...
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Sexual content
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Frequent romantic and sexual content with some explicit scenes between main characters.
Violence & gore
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Moderate violence including physical struggles and injuries due to time travel.
Profanity
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Moderate use of strong language scattered throughout the narrative.
Substance use
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Minor references to alcohol use in social settings.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Brief mentions of secondary characters with LGBTQ+ identities.
Religious content
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No religious themes present.
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic or witchcraft depicted.
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present.
Political content
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No political or ideological messaging present.
Self-harm / suicide
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Minor references to emotional distress; no explicit self-harm or suicide.
Abuse & suffering
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Moderate emotional suffering due to time travel separation and loss.
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