Body swap
Hallie, dying to know whether her crush likes her, runs across a mall parking lot with her cell phone blocking her vision as 82-year-old Susan is backing out. The freak accident appears to cost both of them their lives. It's all Susan's fault, right? What business does she have still being behind the wheel at her age? The two find themselves transported to a strange fairground, and argue back and forth over whose fault the accident was. In order to find the truth, the carnival operator makes them an offer: they can have another chance at life, but it will be in each other's bodies. Sent back to very different lives, the two must work together to prove that a defect in the car was behind the deadly crash. Will people listen to a teenager? Or a senior? Until they do, other drivers will die.
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- ISBN: 9781459740907
- Physical Description 246 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2018.
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Summary
Body Swap
2019 Hamilton Literary Award for Fiction -- Winner A fatal collision -- who's to blame? Two bodies, two souls switch in search of justice. When fifteen-year-old Hallie gets knocked flying by a Hurricane SUV, her life ends without her ever having kissed a boy. At an otherworldly carnival, she meets and argues with the eighty-two-year-old driver, Susan. Both return to life, only with one catch -- they've swapped bodies. Now Hallie has wrinkled skin and achy joints while Susan deals with a forehead zit and a crush on a guy who's a player. Hallie faces a life in a long-term care residence. Susan gets picked up for shoplifting. As they struggle with technology, medications, and each other's fashion foibles, they start to understand and maybe even like each other. But can they work together to prove that a defect in the Hurricane caused the deadly crash? Or will their time run out?
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