About This Book
Si Morley doesn't travel through time in a machine — he steps into 1882 New York City simply by immersing himself in the era deeply enough for the past to reach back and pull him in. What follows is part mystery, part love story, and entirely about the seductive danger of believing somewhere else — some when else — might suit you better than where you already are. The stakes aren't world-ending; they're more intimate than that: whether a man can belong to two times at once, and what it costs him to find out.
What sets Time and Again apart is Finney's insistence on texture over spectacle. He fills the book with period illustrations, photographs, and maps, and writes 1880s New York with the specificity of someone who clearly fell in love with his research. The prose moves at the unhurried pace of a city without cars, and that restraint is the point — Finney makes the past feel genuinely inhabitable rather than theatrical. Readers who surrender to its rhythm will find themselves not just following Si through old Manhattan but missing it when they're done.