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Throwback
Throwback | Maurene Goo
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Back to the Future meets Joy Luck Club in this fresh, funny novel about a Gen Z Korean American girl who gets stuck in the 90s with her teenaged mother, perfect for fans of Mary H.K. Choi, Morgan Matson, and Nicola Yoon."No one can (…more)
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Karisimo
Throwback | Maurene Goo
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#schoolspirit #homecoming
A cute YA where a girl time travels to the 1990s to help her mom win Homecoming Queen!

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Eggs Brilliant 👸🏼 8mo
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ahoffkosik
Throwback | Maurene Goo
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Author of THE CHRISTMAS ORPHANS CLUB and Bad on Paper podcast co-host Becca Freeman is on my book pod this week for another juicy New Reads November conversation, this time about Maurene Goo‘s THROWBACK. Tune in to hear us gab about everything from mother/daughter relationships and inter-generational empathy to high school homecoming and conforming vs. standing out. Listen at the link in my bio!

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Sharpeipup
Throwback | Maurene Goo
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I like to think the bird is a bouncer so this guy can read in peace. 🚨

Bookwormjillk I wish I had a guard bird like that. 2y
ElizaMarie Such a good birdie! 2y
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Tamra 😆 2y
Aims42 😂 Nobody is going to get past him! 2y
marleed Hahaha! 2y
dabbe 🤣🤣🤣 New hashtag: #birdbouncer 2y
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Kboltz
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Samantha is transported back to 1995 by an Uber ride to make a change to make her mom and herself closer. A very good YA novel. Love time travel and this one is really good. Great message and maybe the generation now will understand that most of us are immigrants to this country and we all have had to explain our “ways”. Time is not that far between until you relive it.

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IReadThereforeIBlog
Throwback | Maurene Goo
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Maurene Goo‘s YA time travelling fantasy is a clever and fun look at changing social attitudes and the experience of being an immigrant -v- being 1st generation -v- being 2nd generation Korean-American in the US. The romance is secondary to the character work between Sam and Priscilla as Sam understands her mum better and Goo‘s light, chatty and self-knowing narrative style that worked for me and will see me checking out Goo‘s back catalogue.

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Eggbeater
Throwback | Maurene Goo
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This is a feel-good, Back to the Future type time travel YA novel that takes place in 1995. It does not portray what I think of as serious mother/daughter issues, but it does a good job with immigrant and family identity and strife throughout the generations. Gen Z is a kinder, more inclusive generation than mine, and they do give me hope. It is cute and fluffy, but I still liked it.

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sarahgreatlove
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Thank you SO much to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC of this book.
Throwback is a “back to the future” story of a girl who can‘t find common ground with her mother until a dodgy ride takes her back to her mothers high school 30 years earlier.
There‘s a cute romance side plot I really liked, but the relationship between grandmother, mother and daughter takes centre stage and has so much heart.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫