In the future we will be married, after we meet, at which point you will have to fill me in on everything I have already told you because I won’t have done it yet.

“Be Kind.”

Audrey Niffenegger’s first novel is quite an accomplishment. It is dense, and yet still a very quickly paced story, it is scientifically as accurate as possible, and yet it does not get bogged down in making sure the overlapping events are explained perfectly or detailed in an easily understood way. A story that uses time travel as a key device is always nearly wrapping itself into knots it cannot untangle, but by using it only as a tool, Niffenegger has created a novel that is no longer concerned with the act of time travel, but the human results and consequences.

This is an amazing first novel, from a very creative woman, artist, and bibliophile; and I am greatly looking forward to her next tale.