“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?” - taken from Goodreads.
Samantha and her mother have a contentious relationship. Things between the two of them go from bad to worse when her grandmother has a heart attack. After a failed attempt by her mother to get Sam's mind off of her grandmother, words explode between them with Sam saying she hates her mother and her mother abandoning her at the mall. Securing a ride through an app called Throwback, Sam arrives at school. She is not prepared to arrive 30 years in the past when her mother was in high school. With no foreseeable way for her to return to the present, Sam must figure out a way to solve whatever problem of her mother’s in order to go back to her time.
Have you ever wondered what your mother was like at your age? If so, this is the book for you.
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