Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble; it has been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply — but that almost seems beside the point now. Maybe that was always beside the point. Two days before they’re supposed to visit Neal’s family in Omaha for Christmas, Georgie tells Neal that she can’t go. She’s a TV writer, and something’s come up on her show; she has to stay in Los Angeles. She knows that Neal will be upset with her — Neal is always a little upset with Georgie — but she doesn't expect him to pack up the kids and go home without her. When her husband and the kids leave for the airport, Georgie wonders if she’s finally done it. If she’s ruined everything. That night, Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past. It’s not time travel, not exactly, but she feels like she’s been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts... Is that what she’s supposed to do? Or would Georgie and Neal be better off if their marriage never happened?
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Maybe I just couldn't relate that well to the main character as a middle aged woman, because I felt like it shouldn't have been so hard for her to fix things with her husband in the current time.
However I LOVE LOVE LOVE the time phone as a device! There have been so many times when I've wondered about what things would be like if I had done x or not done y, and though I try to not have regrets, I loved this idea of using the past to get her point across and to learn about both of them.
I remember being sad about the talking to the dead dad-in-law, I remember the puppy birth part, I remember the traveling in the truck and walking in the snow part.
All the bits about her work life and that story/show were boring. I guess I didn't understand the humor? And if that was supposed to be teaching the main character something or be a parallel for her life or >insert literary device here< then I totally missed it.
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