Your Life Has Been Delayed
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
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?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A plane trip home from New York to St. Louis upends a rising senior's existence when the aircraft, taking off in 1995, lands 25 years later, in (a Covid-free) 2020. The world has altered dramatically when aspiring journalist Jenny Waters, 17 and white, deplanes alongside her fellow passengers; though they're unchanged and unaged, new styles have emerged, technology has advanced, loved ones have died, and partners have moved on. For Jenny, her brother and closest friends are all now middle-aged and raising families of their own. As the FBI investigates, conspiracies fly, and Jenny works to salvage her future, she struggles to find her place in a world that has long believed her dead and now labels her a hoax. She must also navigate a growing attraction to the white son of her now-grown best friend and onetime boyfriend. Mason adeptly depicts the shock Jenny experiences in jumping forward over two decades, depicting notable changes (e.g., in gender norms) to explore differences in teens' lives between the 1990s and today. With its intriguing premise and approachable first-person narrative, this page-turner encourages readers to appreciate the now. Ages 12–up.
