Oona Out of Order

Books | Fiction / Women

3.8

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Margarita Montimore

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICKAMAZON EDITORS' 20 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR PICK"With its countless epiphanies and surprises, Oona proves difficult to put down." —USA Today"By turns tragic and triumphant, heartbreakingly poignant and joyful, this is ultimately an uplifting and redemptive read." —The GuardianA remarkably inventive novel that explores what it means to live a life fully in the moment, even if those moments are out of order.It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or remain at home in Brooklyn to pursue her passion for music and be with her boyfriend? As the countdown to the New Year begins, Oona faints and awakens thirty-two years in the future in her fifty-one-year-old body. Greeted by a friendly stranger in a beautiful house she’s told is her own, Oona learns that with each passing year she will leap to another age at random. And so begins Oona Out of Order...Hopping through decades, pop culture fads, and much-needed stock tips, Oona is still a young woman on the inside but ever changing on the outside. Who will she be next year? Philanthropist? Club Kid? World traveler? Wife to a man she’s never met? Surprising, magical, and heart-wrenching, Margarita Montimore has crafted an unforgettable story about the burdens of time, the endurance of love, and the power of family.

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Author

Margarita Montimore

Pages

280

Publisher

Flatiron Books

Published Date

2020-02-25

ISBN

1250236592 9781250236593

Ratings

Google: 4

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"DNF"

Sher Free✌️

"The greatest book I’ve read in a long time. MC makes mistakes, and you cant blame her, she’s literally never been the age she has just turned, and her mind never matches her body,, quite often I dont feel much different from her"

Ambulance biter

"Oona Out Of Order is the story of Oona Lockhart. The story begins at her nineteenth birthday party/New Year's Eve party as she was born on January 1st. She's currently being weighed down by a decision to travel to London with her longtime friend to unlock future opportunities for herself or go on tour with the makeshift band she's in with her first love. When the clock strikes midnight and Oona is officially nineteen years old, something entirely unexplained happens. She finds herself no longer at the party with her boyfriend in the first few seconds of 1983 but finds herself in 2015, now a fifty-one year old woman though still only retaining memories up to age nineteen. From that moment on, Oona no longer ages chronologically. On midnight of January 1st each year, she goes to a different year in her life she hasn't experienced yet. It could be older or younger. Her only clue as to what transpired the year prior is a letter written by a version of her she's yet to experience so much of it is still leaving her clueless. My only issue with the book is that I felt it should have been slightly longer as she constantly talks about her first love throughout the book and because of the unpredictability of her "leaps," we as a reader don't really get to know him as a character nor why he ends up being a lifelong person she can't let go of. We don't discover much of anything about him through actual interactions between Oona and Dale (first love) because she doesn't live life chronologically. I would have loved to see the motivation behind her loving Dale so much from actually experiencing part of their love story. I ended up reading this in 24 hours as it was such a wonderful book but I'm a bit nitpicky about that aspect."