Waking Up Eighty: Be Careful What You Wish For (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781838053017)

Be careful what you wish for...

Kara Stewart is fed up with just about everything. Between the boring schoolwork, a crush on a clueless boy, and her mom's annoying new husband, she's pretty tired of her life as is. She wishes she was older so she could be free from the shackles of authority. After all, when she's an adult, no one can boss her around, right? Growing up and leaving her family behind is her only desire.

That is until an accident during a failed runaway attempt leaves her in the body of her 80-year-old self in a world far beyond recognition. Now she must navigate a whole new set of emotions, problems, and situations as she struggles to live life as an older version of herself. Will she ever return to her own time, or is she doomed to die having let her whole life pass her by? Will she learn the lessons she needs? All this and more are answered within the thrilling pages of Waking Up 80.

Written by Shola Lawrence, a mother of three, and an avid scholar of the human condition, Waking Up Eighty hopes to capture and explore the fleeting nature of youth and life, and the need for patience no matter your circumstances. Through Kara, we see the struggles with patience and the triumphs over irrational emotion that are an indispensable part of the human experience.