“I had woken up in a world I didn’t expect where I didn’t understand the rules,” he says in an interview with Paste. Mastai was narrating the audiobook during election week, and he entered the studio “feeling like character.” And though it was written before President Trump, it proves timely for people who feel they are living in an alternate reality now. (On the bright side, there’s punk rock and hip-hop on the downside, it’s harder to make good guacamole.) Amazingly, Mastai makes perfect sense of this confusion.Īll Our Wrong Todays takes us on Tom’s journey from a selfish man-child to a hero torn between two worlds, highlighting the consequences of action and inaction.

Tom’s reeling, in part from what he has done to his family and everyone in his world and in part from complete and utter culture shock. When Tom returns to our own miserable present, he exists as John, a superstar architect. But when Tom time travels to 1965, he accidentally reinvents history and sets the messy timeline we recognize in motion. The book is the first-person confessional of Tom Barren, a man who lives in an alternate present where crime, war, poverty and even rotten avocados don’t exist. This helps explain why Mastai wrote All Our Wrong Todays. In other words, he’s comfortable slipping between two similar but very different worlds. So Mastai is currently adapting his text for the screen while writing his next novel. The book, titled All Our Wrong Todays, earned him a seven-figure deal from Dutton-and then another screenplay contract from Paramount. If they fly right into the future, you get a clue into how the author imagines the future could be.When screenwriter Elan Mastai first imagined a tale with time travel and alternate realities, he knew it needed to be written as a novel. If the book transports your characters back into the past, you get the added bonus of seeing history unfold before your eyes. Reading novels about time travel can not only stir up your imagination, but also give you a glimpse of life different time periods.

It’s a great introduction to the question of the time-space continuum! Reading Stories About Time Travel This classic series includes so many magical and fantastical elements that it’s difficult to call it only a book about time travel.īut throughout the series, the characters move seamlessly in and out of different time periods.

All our wrong todays by elan mastai