The Girl I Was: A Novel – A NYT Bestseller Contemporary Fiction and Time Travel Adventure

This fully updated and expanded edition of Jeneva Rose's debut novel features six new chapters from a fresh point-of-view. Alexis Spencer relies on inspirational quotes to excuse her failures. Her friendships have faded, her college debt remains unpaid, and she drifts through life with a "whatever will be, will be" attitude. When she loses her job and relationship on the same day, no quote can sustain her. After a drinking binge, Alexis blacks out and wakes not at home, but in her college town in 2002—twenty years in the past. Seeing this as a chance to redo her life, she returns to her dorm and encounters her eighteen-year-old self, Lexi, who considers the nickname "sexier" than Alexis. Despite being the same person, adult Alexis and teenage Lexi are fundamentally different. Adjusting to early 2000s life proves manageable, but coexisting with her younger self is challenging. The two must learn to cooperate and accept that neither can fix their life alone—only together can they change their future for the better.