The Unmaking of June Farrow
- by Adrienne Young
- Novel
- Fantasy, Romance, Mystery and Crime
- English
- The Unmaking of June Farrow: A Novel by Adrienne Young (Delacorte, October 2023).
June Farrow, raised by her grandmother, knew only hints of the family curse as she grew into womanhood in the 21st century. But it's only when Grandmother dies and June is pulled into the 1950s that the curse fully comes to life.
—Michael Main
My thoughts began to poke at the edge of something that I couldn’t quite bring into focus. I couldn’t explain this away even if I tried. What was it that Gran had told me? That she was in two places at once? That the Farrow women were different.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1900 to 1929: June's birth before being brought forward and abandoned
- Circa AD 1940 to 1949: In the 1950s, the June of the story remembers a different timeline where she was in the ’40s.
- Circa AD 1950 to 1959: June's primary trip back.
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: June’s home time
- Timeline Models
- Remembering Other Timelines: June begins to remember the other timeline when she visited the ’40s.
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Portal: Although it's described as a timeslip, the red door is really a portal.
- Wearable Time Object: The red door is partially controlled via a locket.
- Themes
- Cannot Return to Where You Already Exist
- Limited Number of Trips: Each Farrow can make only three trips through time.
- Meeting or Viewing Ancestors or Descendants: June’s grandmother and great-grandmother
- Multiple Sophisticated Timelines: There’s an attempt to explain how the two timelines interact and eventually merge.
- Synchronized Time: June talks as if each day that passes for her in the ’50s corresponds to a day in the 21st century.
- Time Travel Sickness, Injuries, and Mixed-Up Body Parts
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- The Unmaking of June Farrow: A Novel by Adrienne Young (Delacorte, October 2023).