Kosoko Jackson's Yesterday is History
I love a time travel story, and this one had an amazing premise: a teenaged black gay boy receives a liver transplant from someone from a family with the genetic ability to time travel, and suddenly he is time traveling back to 1969 and hanging with the (white) teenage boy who lived in his house back then! And the (white) organ donor's family wants their other son, a surly lacrosse bro, to train him in their time traveling ways. Now, the writing here is occasionally awkward in that YA way, and I definitely wished it went a little bit deeper into some things, but did I cry a little bit at the end? Obviously. Also LOL THIS PREMISE, seriously, amazing. A-/B+.
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