When her father needed heart surgery during the 2020 pandemic, it not only shook the author, it also inspired her.
Emma Straub is 42 and lives a full life: She and her husband have two young children and own an independent bookstore in Brooklyn and she has written her seventh book, “This Time Tomorrow.”
So when Peter Straub needed heart surgery during the 2020 pandemic, it not only shook his daughter, it also inspired her. “This Time Tomorrow” is, at its heart, a book about father-daughter relationships and about the acceptance of loss — but as a tribute to her dad, Straub makes it her first foray into the supernatural.
Q. Were you at all superstitious about writing about a dying father while your own father was so sick? Yes, one hundred percent. The pandemic made this an irresistible book to live inside. I was stuck in my house except for visiting my father in the hospital and I was stuck in this terrifying moment where everyone was afraid to go outside.
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