Title: Oddly charming
Review: The Time Traveler's Wife could have easily been a serious flop: it moves constantly between dates, each segment told from either Clare's or Henry's point of view- conveying information from two narrators at different stages of life. It could have easily been a failed attempt at technique, or gimmick- but in some strange way- Audrey Niffenegger makes it work- and beautifully so.Niffenegger weaves the storyline gently between the two characters, telling us their story- a journey through two different worlds, connected only by what we don't see- an anchored time and place where Henry and Clare can finally exist together. Time and space, as Niffenegger so skillfully shows, are illusions. Waiting for the perfect moment, for the right time, or the right place are equations easily disturbed. It's our ability to feel, experience, and love that makes a moment in time move- not time itself. Lovely work of human experience and time theories.
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