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Throwback

By: Maurene Goo
Narrated by: Jennifer Sun Bell
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Back to the Future meets The Joy Luck Club in this YA contemporary romance about a Korean American girl sent back to the ’90s to (reluctantly) help her teenage mom win Homecoming Queen.

Being a first-generation Asian American immigrant is hard. You know what’s harder? Being the daughter of one.

Samantha Kang has never gotten along with her mother, Priscilla—and has never understood her bougie-nightmare, John Hughes high school expectations. After a huge fight between them, Sam is desperate to move forward—but instead, finds herself thrown back. Way back.

To her shock, Sam finds herself back in high school . . . in the ’90s . . . with a 17-year-old Priscilla. Now this Gen Z girl must try to fit into an analog world. She’s got the fashion down, but everything else is baffling. What is “microfiche”? What’s with the casual racism and misogyny? And why does it feel like Priscilla is someone she could actually be . . . friends with?

Sam's blast to the past has her finding the right romance in the wrong time while questioning everything she thought she knew about her mom . . . and herself. Will Sam figure out what she needs to do to fix things for her mom so that she can go back to a time she understands?

Brimming with heart and humor, Maurene Goo’s time-travel romance asks big questions about what exactly one inherits and loses in the immigrant experience.

©2023 Maurene Goo (P)2023 Zando
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Nostalgic!

I saw Maureen Goo sspeak at the LA Book festival about this book and it completely caught my eye. Time travel? Asian MC? The 90’s?! And it was better than I thought it was going to be. Binged it and am going to make all my friends and my kids read it. The audio performance was wonderful too!

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SO UNEXPECTED.!

I knew when I read the synopsis of this book that I was going to enjoy it. What I didn't expect was that I would not only love it but that its also probably one of my favorite books of this year. This book caught me by surprise. It had a beautiful love story between a mother in her daughter in the past and the future. It also had a very unexpected love story that I was extremely excited to see unfold. This book was like a love letter to families, and a love letter to your past and future self. I can't believe this is a debut novel. Well freakin done Maurene Goo. I have never laughed and cried so many times in my life.

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Fun time travel twist

This was a modern day Back to the Future. I loved it and sent a copy to my daughter since I knew she would love this book too.

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