This is a great book. Samantha is the main character and narrator of the book, the daughter and granddaughter of Korean immigrants. She is in high school, not sure she wants to keep dating her boyfriend and is always butting heads with her perfectionist mother, Priscilla. Priscilla was not able to go to college and wants more for her daughter. Samantha has different ideas for herself. She is more interested in journalism. One day Samantha gets out of bed and prepares to go to school, like normal. The bus doesn't show up so she calls a rideshare from Throwback Rides - where she is delivered to her school but in 1995. Specifically, she is in high school with her *mother* who is her age, and running for homecoming queen. More is on the line than a tiara for a day - the homecoming queen will also win a college scholarship. Winning that scholarship could change Priscilla's life in a big way. Without it, there is no money for college. Her mother has a dry cleaning business, and Priscilla works there after school. Priscilla did not win in her past and did not go to college. Samantha figures out that she has been sent back to help Priscilla become Homecoming Queen - which will award her the scholarship - which will change her future. Samantha's hope is that this will enable her to return to her own time. Much to her surprise, she also discovers that she is not the only person in the school from a future year who has the same dilemma. This is a story of generational conflict, Korean immigrant experience, time travel, and romance. I received an ARC from the publisher Zando Projects via NetGalley, and voluntarily read and reviewed this book.

Three and a half stars. Samantha Kang has always had more in common with her grandmother (Halmoni) than with her own mother, she feels like nothing she does is ever right for her mother, Priscilla. Priscilla is a first generation Korean-American and she seems to have obliterated everything Korean from her life, they don't eat Korean food at home, she doesn't speak Korean, even to her mother, and seems to have a similarly fraught relationship with her own mother which apparently dates back to when Priscilla failed to be voted Prom Queen. After Halmoni has a heart attack Priscilla and Samantha have a massive argument, culminating in Sam saying she hated her mother. Sam downloads and books a taxi app ,but instead of taking her home it takes her back to 1995 when her mother was at high school and running for Prom Queen. It seems that Sam has been sent back in time to help Priscilla win the vote for Prom Queen (and thereby fix the problems between Priscilla and Halmoni) and she can't return to her own time until her task has been completed. At first Sam finds it a shock to the system, in her reality their school is a veritable melting pot of diversity and she finds it hard to negotiate the 1990s high school cliques of jocks and goths and the Asian kids etc. If you loved Back to the Future, or Freaky Friday, or maybe Thirteen Going on Thirty like I did then I think you'll enjoy this.