Oona Out of Order
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4.1 • 106 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
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"Reminiscent of Liane Moriarty’s What Alice Forgot and Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life, Oona Out of Order is a delightfully freewheeling romp.” —Booklist (starred review)
Oona Out of Order is a remarkably inventive novel that explores what it means to live a life fully in the moment, even if those moments are out of sequence.
Just because life may be out of order, doesn’t mean it’s broken.
It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or remain at home in Brooklyn to pursue her passion for music and be with her boyfriend? As the countdown to the New Year begins, Oona faints and awakens thirty-two years in the future in her fifty-one-year-old body. Greeted by a friendly stranger in a beautiful house she’s told is her own, Oona learns that with each passing year she will leap to another age at random. And so begins Oona Out of Order...
Hopping through decades, pop culture fads, and much-needed stock tips, Oona is still a young woman on the inside but ever changing on the outside. Who will she be next year? Philanthropist? Club Kid? World traveler? Wife to a man she’s never met?
Surprising, magical, and heart-wrenching, Margarita Montimore has crafted an unforgettable story about the burdens of time, the endurance of love, and the power of family.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
What if youth wasn’t wasted on the young? That’s the question at the center of Margarita Montimore’s irresistible novel. Beginning in 1983, when she is just 19, Oona Lockhart finds herself transported every single New Year’s Day to a random year of her adult existence. Initially, she visits her life in 2015, as a wealthy, middle-aged woman in New York City, before jumping backward to the early-’90s hedonism of her club kid days. Montimore has a lot of fun with the time travel genre, inviting us to revel in the popularity of grunge music and anticipate the advent of Instagram. As Oona reckons with her foreknowledge of the future, her personal choices become potentially fate altering. Veteran narrator Brittany Pressley nails both the lightheartedness of the funny moments and the gravity of the heart-wrenching ones. Oona Out of Order is as delightful as it is impossible to put down.
Customer Reviews
wishful thinking
its a page turner
Fun book
Loved the leaps.