As the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve 1982, two big things happened for Oona Lockhart: she turned 19 years old and she mentally travels to 2015, coming to in her 51-year-old body. As she rapidly discovers, Oona has the complicated tendency to transfer to a different year of her adult life every New Year, though she has no idea when or where she'll turn up. Over the course of the book, Oona kind of learns to deal with her predicament, helped by the only two people who know about her odd situation: her mother and a younger man named Kenzie. Along the way, she finds and loses love, learns to play the guitar, and makes a killing in the stock market.
This is such an odd story to describe, and definitely an odd one to read. It's interesting to see how Oona grows and changes as her mental age steadily moves forward, regardless of the physical body she inhabits each year. There's definitely something of The Time Traveler's Wife in this book (though this one is perhaps more approachable), as well as the Doctor Who story arc of the Doctor and River Song. If you enjoyed those, or are a fan of Lou Reed, this book's worth checking out.
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