This is an interesting book, while having a premise set in sci-fi, it is really a love story of a couple with some challenges. Henry has a genetic problem, basically he time-travels, usually to the past and to a place/time that has significance for him. Sometimes he even meets with himself in the past. But the person he is most drawn to Clare, his present day wife.
Henry first meets Clare when she is six. He knows she is to become his wife, as far as he is concerned, she is right now. But how he deals with a six-year-old version of his wife becomes difficult. How is explains that he is a time-traveller even more difficult.
The Time Traveler's Wife is an engaging book, though to get used to the shifts in time takes a bit of getting used to in the first hundred pages. After that it is a quick read, and the 500 plus pages turn very quickly.
Audrey Niffenegger, the author also describes Chicago nicely, bringing the reader into that city as a setting for much of the novel. I hope she does not try to use this mixture of genres too much, for it could grow stale.
Though some time shifting sequences did not entirely make sense to me (who knew what, when, how) it is really a story about two people holding onto their love through adversity and uncertainty. And it succeeds on that level very well.
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