Your Life Has Been Delayed - Hardcover

Mason, Michelle I.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1547604085 ISBN 13: 9781547604081

Publisher: Bloomsbury YA, 2021

Synopsis

How do you move forward when your entire life is stuck in the past? In this captivating YA debut, Michelle I. Mason tells the story of a girl who takes off on a flight and lands...twenty-five years later.

After visiting her grandparents in New York City, Jenny Waters is ready for the perfect senior year. She’s going to hang out with her best friend Angie, finally kiss her new boyfriend Steve, and convince her parents to let her apply to Columbia so she can become an award-winning journalist. But when her plane lands in St. Louis, Jenny and the other passengers are told their plane vanished into thin air. . . and then reappeared twenty-five years later.

Suddenly, it’s not 1995 anymore. Everyone in Jenny’s life has spent the last twenty-five years mourning her death. Jenny has missed two decades of pop culture, and her high school is practically unrecognizable. Learning about cell phones and social media is difficult enough, but the unexplainable mystery of the flight has also thrust Jenny’s entire life into the spotlight―which makes it extra-complicated when Jenny falls for a cute, kind classmate with an unusual connection to her past.

Can Jenny figure out a way to move forward, or will she always feel stuck in the past?

About this title

About the Author

Michelle I. Mason lives in St. Louis with her family. She spent ten years as a PR manager (she hasn't covered time travel-yet-but has promoted everything from forklift rodeos to hotel olympics) before shifting her focus to fictional stories. When she isn't writing novels, she enjoys reading, watching too much TV, cross-stitching, baking amazing brownies, playing the violin, and remembering her favorite pop culture moments from 1995.

michelleimason.com
@MichelleIMason

Reviews

Gr 8 Up-It's August 2, 1995, and Jenny Waters is a normal teenage girl, boarding a flight home after visiting her grandparents in New York City. She spends the flight plotting how to convince her parents to let her apply to Columbia University (her dream journalism school) and fantasizing about having her first kiss with her new boyfriend Steve. But when her plane lands, it's not 1995. Somewhere on the approach to St. Louis, her plane jumped ahead in time 25 years. The book focuses almost entirely on Jenny's adjustment to the shock of technological advancements and the people in her life being so much older. There are a few moments where Mason misses the mark, notably when Jenny (who is white) blurts out her surprise that her brother's wife is Black, something that wouldn't even be unusual in 1995. Additionally, the only other person of color is the high-achieving Asian bully who is co-editor-in-chief of the school paper. The novel, however narrow in its scope, does succeed at examining the way rapid advancements in technology have completely changed our way of life-something adult readers might find more nostalgic and compelling than teens. VERDICT An additional purchase.-Katie Patterson, Aloha Community Lib., ORα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury YA
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1547604085
• ISBN 13: 9781547604081
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304