Alice is almost forty, and she’s satisfied with her life. She has a partner, friends, and a job at a prestigious school in the center of Manhattan—where she studied thanks to the fame of her father, a science-fiction writer. That father, whom her mother left her with in childhood, is now dying in the hospital, and the doctors can’t help. All Alice can do is wait for what’s inevitable.
However, the day after her fortieth birthday, she unexpectedly goes back in time, becoming sixteen again. In the 90s, when everyone wears flared jeans and smokes regular cigarettes, and nobody has heard of social media yet—and the future hasn’t been decided. In her house on the Upper West Side, a pager on the bedside table starts beeping, music is kept on disks, and her father—young and cheerful—sits at the kitchen table, just the way she can barely remember him.
Now, realizing what awaits them in the future, Alice begins rethinking her past. Maybe something else can still be changed?