The MASH Up
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Publisher Description
"Laura Marie Meyers’ debut novel glows with charm, humor, and heart. An irresistible, page-turning treat from first laugh to last swoon." —Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love You More
It’s all fun and games until someone falls in love.
MANSION • APARTMENT • SHACK • HOUSE
Ruby Wynne is a staunch rule-follower who lives by the numbers. So when a surprising breakup – on her thirty-fifth birthday – ruins all her well-laid plans, Ruby makes an unexpected wish . . . Only to wake up inside a M.A.S.H. game from seventh grade.
Settled in a Technicolor mansion, driving a tie-dye Jeep, and running a roller-disco restaurant, Ruby is living out her childhood dreams come true—with one exception. According to the game, Ruby’s “other half” is supposed to be Penn Hayes, her brother’s annoying, and annoyingly handsome, best friend. But there’s zero romance between them. Just like in real life, all they share is sarcasm. With no rules to follow and desperate to return to reality, Ruby makes her best guess at an escape plan: win Penn’s heart so the game comes completely true and she can go home.
It’s unthinkable. On Ruby’s list of dos and don’ts, Penn Hayes is a lifelong don’t. But as Ruby navigates the magical world she dreamed up at thirteen, she wonders if, by finally throwing out her rules, she might just find her way home to the life and love she deserves.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
13 Going on 30 gets a Lisa Frank twist in Meyers's solid rom-com debut. Accountant Ruby Wynne is celebrating her 35th birthday with her twin brother, Ryan, and his life-long best friend, Penn Hayes (the boy next door turned bartender), when her best friend Bridget pulls out an old record of the childhood fortune-telling game MASH that they filled out as tweens. Instead of the beige and spreadsheet-dictated life Ruby's spent her adulthood constructing, 13-year-old Ruby expected to live in a mansion with two pools, drive a tie-dye Jeep Wrangler, own 13 pet fish, open a roller-rink restaurant, and end up not with her current boyfriend, the staid and safe Connor, but with non-planner Penn. The next day, Ruby wakes up stuck inside the life the game predicted thanks to a birthday wish gone wrong. She must figure out how to return her world—or, if she can't, how to embrace the much brighter, more interesting, and colorful future her 13-year-old self envisioned, where all her loved ones ended up pursuing their passions. However, when the pieces of the game begin to fail, Ruby must decide if going after what she really wants—including Penn—is too dangerous even in this pretend world. It's a cute, fluffy tale packed with millennial nostalgia for the early 2000s. Meyers is sure to win fans.
