Your Life Has Been Delayed is a young adult novel written by Michelle Mason.
Jenny is a young 17-year-old girl heading home from visiting her grandparents in New York. At the moment her biggest concern is trying to convince her parents to let her go to NYU and reuniting with her boyfriend. However for some reason when she and the other passengers disembark in St Louis they discover they've jumped forward 25 years! Jenny's brother Bradly and best friend Angie are in their late 30s/early 40s with families of their own, her parents are senior citizens, and 3 out of her 4 grandparents have died. Now stuck in an uncertain future Jenny has to figure out if she can find a way to move forward, or always be stuck in the past.
This work provides examples of:
- Artistic License – History: Downplayed. Despite the bulk of the story taking place in 2020, the Covid 19 pandemic is never brought up.
- I Choose to Stay: In a What You Are in the Dark moment Jenny decides she'd rather stay in 2020 than go back to 1995 even though she's at her lowest moment.
- Immoral Journalist: Gretta Barren a reporter determined to create scandal with the Flight 237 passengers.
- Intrepid Reporter: Jenny.
- New Media Are Evil: Jenny becomes super frustrated at a lot of newer technology because of the lack of privacy it affords people.
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Spiritual Adaptation: Of Manifest with a much more extreme time skip of 25 years rather than 5. - Tropaholics Anonymous: The passengers and crew of Flight 237 set up a support group to help deal with the radical time jump and the readjustment back to society.
- Year Outside, Hour Inside: The central premise is caused when Flight 237 jumps forward from 1995 to 2020
