{"id":14522,"date":"2021-10-10T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=14522"},"modified":"2021-10-09T21:17:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T01:17:12","slug":"blog-tour-the-throwback-list-by-lily-anderson-review-excerpt-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-the-throwback-list-by-lily-anderson-review-excerpt-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: The Throwback List by Lily Anderson (Review + Excerpt + Giveaway!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ubb-blog-tour-banner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rockstarbooktours.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/THE-THROWBACK-LIST.jpg\" alt=\"Blog Tour: The Throwback List by Lily Anderson (Review + Excerpt + Giveaway!)\"><\/a><\/p><p>Happy Sunday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for THE THROWBACK LIST by Lily Anderson! I\u2019m so excited to share my review with you today, AND an excerpt, AND more information about the author and tour, PLUS you can enter the giveaway to win a print copy! And now without any further ado, let\u2019s get to the review!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.<\/p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/the-throwback-list-cover.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: The Throwback List by Lily Anderson (Review + Excerpt + Giveaway!)\" title=\"Blog Tour: The Throwback List by Lily Anderson (Review + Excerpt + Giveaway!)\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignleft\"><strong>The Throwback List<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/authors\/lily-anderson\/\">Lily Anderson<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  October 5, 2021 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/hyperion-avenue\/\">Hyperion Avenue<\/a> <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/contemporary\/\">Contemporary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/new-adult\/\">New Adult<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/queer\/\">Queer<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 400 <br><strong>Format:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/formats\/audiobook\/\">Audiobook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/formats\/earc\/\">eARC<\/a> <br><strong>Source:<\/strong> NetGalley <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/57007818-the-throwback-list\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><strong>Author Links:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/mslilyanderson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ms_lilyanderson\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7842520.Lily_Anderson\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3AMmomT\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mslilyanderson\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Instagram<\/a> <br><span class=\"star_rating\"><i class=\"fa fa-star\"><\/i><i class=\"fa fa-star\"><\/i><i class=\"fa fa-star\"><\/i><i class=\"fa fa-star\"><\/i><i class=\"fa fa-star\"><\/i><\/span> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p>Welcome to Sandy Point, Oregon: a sleepy beach town that's home to a giant anchor statue, a sometimes-karaoke-bar, and Frosty's questionably legendary Sunday Sundae Surprise. A town Jo, Autumn, and Bianca thought they'd left far behind when they graduated high school, finally moving on to greener pastures than the midway point for tourists heading to the Goonies house. But life seldom goes according to plan.<br \/>\nBianca Boria-Birdy, former prom queen and valedictorian, has always been an overachiever. As she juggles managing the family tattoo parlor, caring for her grandmother, and adjusting to a new marriage, Bianca's schedule becomes stricter than ever, with no room for disruption. What she really needs is a vacation, but not even Bianca Boria-Birdy can achieve the impossible.<br \/>\nAutumn Kelly used to be an actress. Now she teaches drama at Sandy Point High. She may have had to kiss her movie-star dreams goodbye, but molding the next generation of performers has given her life meaning in a whole new way. Until the sudden reappearance of her ex-best friend throws everything off-balance.Jo Freeman has it all together. With a cool job in Silicon Valley, connections at the trendiest fitness studios, and a down payment on her dream condo, she's well on her way to reaching every one of her goals before thirty. Or she was, before she got fired and landed right back home with her parents and teenage sister.<br \/>\nWhen Jo finds an old bucket list in her childhood bedroom, it sets the three women on a path that brings them closer to one another with each task. And it just might lead to a life none of them could have planned.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-10-10T10:00:17+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"Happy Sunday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for THE THROWBACK LIST by Lily Anderson! I\\u2019m so excited to share my review with you today, AND an excerpt, AND more information about the au\",\n\t\"publisher\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Organization\",\n\t\t\"name\": \"Kait Plus Books\"\t},\n\t\"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\\\/books\\\/blog-tour-the-throwback-list-by-lily-anderson-review-excerpt-giveaway\\\/\",\n\t\"itemReviewed\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Book\",\n\t\t\"name\": \"The Throwback List\",\n\t\t\"author\": {\n\t\t\t\"@type\": \"Person\",\n\t\t\t\"name\": \"Lily Anderson\",\n\t\t\t\"sameAs\": \"http:\\\/\\\/mslilyanderson.com\\\/\"\t\t},\n\t\t\"isbn\": \"1368051936\"\t},\n\t\"author\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Person\",\n\t\t\"name\": \"Kaity\",\n\t\t\"sameAs\": \"https:\\\/\\\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\\\/books\\\/\"\t},\n\t\"reviewRating\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Rating\",\n\t\t\"ratingValue\": 5,\n\t\t\"bestRating\": \"5\"\n\t}\n}\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13976\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Kait-Reviews-a-Book-Fall-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>did i like it?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">THIS BOOK IS AMAZING. <strong>it&#8217;s everything I&#8217;ve ever wanted in new adult books. <\/strong>plus this is my second Lily Anderson book, and I can now say that she is one of my <strong>FAVORITE<\/strong> authors, because wow. I just love this book!<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>favorite character?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">tie! Autumn, Bee, Birdy, and Florencio are all my favorites!<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>will i re-read it?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">for sure!<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>three words to describe the book<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">friendship, nostalgia, growth<\/p>\n<h2><strong>what i said on Goodreads<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I FREAKING LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13963\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/The-Perfect-GIF-Fall-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media4.giphy.com\/media\/kfWVKY2gOh8uCqbIQj\/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e471ik5ndbs48ldgnxe4tt84j28qaq732hh815svjps&amp;rid=giphy.gif&amp;ct=g\" alt=\"Tracee Ellis Ross Election GIF by When We All Vote\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13964\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Judging-a-Book-By-Its-Cover-Fall-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>THE LIST ITEMS!!!! THE GIRLS!!!! THE COLORS!!!!! THE FONT!!!!! I love it all but together it&#8217;s just not my favorite????<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">9.9\/10 stars!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13965\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/This-Reminds-Me-Of-Fall-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bold Type<\/li>\n<li><em>The Brittanys<\/em> by Brittany Ackerman<\/li>\n<li><em>My Ride or Die<\/em> by Leslie Cohen<\/li>\n<li><em>Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants<\/em> by Ann Brashares<\/li>\n<li><em>Most Likely<\/em> by Sarah Watson<\/li>\n<li><em>The Assistants<\/em> by Camille Perry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Ao3-Tags-Fall-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#fair warning there will be references to 2000s popular throwback songs<\/li>\n<li>#All aboard the friendship train TOOT TOOT<\/li>\n<li>#but mostly family feels and friendship feels<\/li>\n<li>#prompt: The End of The Bucket List<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14068\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Spoilers-Sweetie-Fall-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I really loved that <span class=\"ubb-spoiler\"><a class=\"ubb-view-spoil\">View Spoiler &raquo;<\/a><span style=\"display: none;\" class=\"ubb-thespoil\"> Jo and Florencio got together at the end! I was shipping them hard. Plus! Bee got her honeymoon <a class=\"ubb-hide-spoil\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer;\">&laquo; Hide Spoiler<\/a><\/span><\/span> and that was great too!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14049\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/My-Favorite-Quotes-Fall-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/001-The-Throwback-List-Quotes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/001-The-Throwback-List-Quotes.png 1920w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/001-The-Throwback-List-Quotes-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/001-The-Throwback-List-Quotes-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/001-The-Throwback-List-Quotes-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/001-The-Throwback-List-Quotes-1536x864.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/002-The-Throwback-List-Quotes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/002-The-Throwback-List-Quotes.png 1920w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/002-The-Throwback-List-Quotes-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/002-The-Throwback-List-Quotes-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/002-The-Throwback-List-Quotes-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/002-The-Throwback-List-Quotes-1536x864.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/003-The-Throwback-List-Quotes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/003-The-Throwback-List-Quotes.png 1920w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/003-The-Throwback-List-Quotes-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/003-The-Throwback-List-Quotes-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/003-The-Throwback-List-Quotes-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/003-The-Throwback-List-Quotes-1536x864.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/004-The-Throwback-List-Quotes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/004-The-Throwback-List-Quotes.png 1920w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/004-The-Throwback-List-Quotes-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/004-The-Throwback-List-Quotes-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/004-The-Throwback-List-Quotes-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/004-The-Throwback-List-Quotes-1536x864.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" 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https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/013-The-Throwback-List-Quotes-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/013-The-Throwback-List-Quotes-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/013-The-Throwback-List-Quotes-1536x864.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13940\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Read-an-Excerpt-Fall-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><b>Palo Alto, California<\/b><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Jo<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jo Freeman stepped off the elevator with \u201cLose Control\u201d stuck in her head. That morning\u2019s exercise coach\u2014Salvador of Confident Kickboxing\u2014put a song on the playlist for every heavy bag in the room and Jo had found herself hitting in the Missy Elliott zone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTake your anthem with you into the world today! Use your big-bitch energy!\u201d Salvador called after them as the class split up to go to their various Silicon Valley desk jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Normally, Jo left her buy-in at the door, discarding all of the silly mantras and platitudes inside her gym du jour. But today, she could feel the \u201cLose Control\u201d beat keeping her hips loose as she took long strides past the reception desk at Quandt Corporation\u2019s Palo Alto headquarters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Work wait. Work work work, wait<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Jo\u2019s heartbeat chanted in time with the music in her head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If she was still thinking about kickboxing two hours after taking off her gloves, Salvador deserved five stars and a tip. She slipped her phone out of her tote and popped open the Gym Class app.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once Jo got the promotion she\u2019d spent the last five years strategizing for, Confident Kickboxing could become her regular gym. As grateful as she was for the free subscription to Gym Class\u2014a Q-Co work perk\u2014she was getting tired of being an exercise vagabond. Lurking in six a.m. classes with strangers. Never knowing where the parking was.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When she finally got to update her business cards to say <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Director of Digital Strategy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, she was going to buy that loft downtown\u2014a huge upgrade from the college-kid-infested apartment building she\u2019d lived in since she was one of the students\u2014and then she was going to buy an annual pass to a gym. She could even get gym buddies. It\u2019d been a minute since she\u2019d had nonwork friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cJohanna?\u201d College Kevin called after her as she passed him on her way to her cube. He skittered around the standing desk of shame that Jo herself had spent eight months chained to when she had been Q-Co\u2019s Stanford intern. Back in the day, the standing desk of shame had also come with a heavy phone headset that made Jo look like she was taking drive-thru orders. College Kevin wore AirPods all day that may or may not have been playing music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jo glanced slightly past Kevin\u2019s head toward Gia\u2019s office. Behind the glass partition, her friend-slash-mentor was sitting barefoot on top of her desk, the receiver of her office landline tucked under her chin as she gesticulated wildly with one hand and cut a Starbucks Pink Drink with diet Red Bull with the other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIs Gia talking to&#8230; the other guys?\u201d Jo asked College Kevin, knowing he wasn\u2019t allowed to tell her. Even Gia, a girl who\u2019d once been fired as a pharmaceutical rep for being \u201ctoo fun,\u201d hadn\u2019t officially spilled the beans on the rumored merger. But Jo had worked for the Q long enough to know when change was in the air. And Gia working her ass off at nine a.m. was a big change. Client relations usually didn\u2019t start until lunch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">College Kevin squirmed. \u201cDevo wants to see you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Work work work, wait<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGreat,\u201d Jo said. She gave him a smile that he couldn\u2019t see with his eyes focused on the toes of his shoes. \u201cI\u2019m on my way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her phone trembled in her hands as she pulled up the interoffice messenger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TODAY\u2019S THE DAY!! <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">she shot off to Gia, whose mouse clicked twice before the read receipt came through.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gia sent back a thumbs-up, then noticed Jo through the glass and waved. Jo mimed walking toward Devo\u2019s office with an o<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">h my God can you believe today\u2019s the day <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">giddy smile. In return, she got a distracted IRL thumbs-up. Gia\u2019s eyes looked tired. Or possibly just lacking concealer. Jo felt bad for even noticing\u2014there was too much pressure for women in the office to adhere to a problematically narrow beauty standard; she herself was guilty of daily flat-ironing on top of her Brazilian blowout just to keep natural 3c curls straight and glossy. Meanwhile College Kevin\u2019s hair was unbrushed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After work<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, she comforted herself, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ll invite Gia out for celebratory drinks and I\u2019ll let her vent about all the secret merger stress. We\u2019ll finally be equals.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without Gia, Jo would never have considered a career in social media. She\u2019d never been a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">do it for the gram <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">type of person. But Gia\u2014a Portlander who had moved six hundred miles to avoid getting sucked into her family business\u2014had seen Jo\u2019s r\u00e9sum\u00e9 back in her standing-desk days and spotted their similarities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019ve spent your whole life giving your parents\u2019 business free promo, you have more job experience than anyone else your age<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, she\u2019d told Intern!Jo. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just do the job you\u2019re already trained for.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And that job was digital public relations. Jo switched her major from English to communications, took a summer intensive in photography so her student loans would cover a camera and Photoshop, and she offered to run Q-Co\u2019s Facebook from the standing desk. She tripled their followers and got a forty-hours-a-week and a job title: social media coordinator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now twenty-six-year-old Jo was on step three of the four-step career plan she and Gia had mapped out:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Internship (unpaid foot in the door)<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Social Media Coordinator<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Social Media Manager<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Content Strategist and Influencer Relations Manager<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Director of Digital Strategy by thirty<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All it had cost her were her weeknights and her social life\u2014both largely disposable since most of her college friends left town for grad school or love or cheaper rent. It had been a few months since she\u2019d dusted off her dating apps and she hadn\u2019t been home to see her parents in ages. It would all be worth it when she became the first Black woman on the management team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A biracial, bisexual girl-boss in Silicon Valley? <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gia would say to hype Jo up when she got discouraged. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know that is 30 Under 30 bait! The second you get promoted, I will call my <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forbes <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">contact.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jo wasn\u2019t in it for the 30 Under 30 lists\u2014although she wouldn\u2019t mind having something cool to post about while everyone back home was getting married or having babies. She just wanted to reap what she\u2019d sown. After five years of planting all of her hard work into Q-Co and their fancy fitness trackers, she was ready to harvest a real life for herself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was only what she deserved. She did more than talk the talk; she even wore the product. Today: a small silver ring on her index finger tracked her mounting heartbeat as she strode into the boss\u2019s office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Devo\u2014Devon Quandt Jr., operations manager and son of the founder\u2014had a small water feature built into the longest wall of his office so that it was eternally raining on his mounted classics degree. The noise made Jo want to stuff erasers in her ears. It was expensive and wasteful water torture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Devo himself was expensive and wasteful, sitting sideways in his ergonomic office chair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No one else on the first floor had an ergonomic chair. But no one else\u2019s dad had successfully opened three start-ups and left them the last one to babysit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI see you, Johanna,\u201d Devo sang throatily, like a cartoon frog. \u201cI see you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPretty sure that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sweeney Todd <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">isn\u2019t workplace appropriate, Devo,\u201d Jo said. She sat in the non-ergo chair across from him. \u201cThat song is about a stalker and a pedophile.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI didn\u2019t realize you were a theater buff,\u201d Devo said, twirling in his chair before resting his elbows on his desk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m a woman of the world,\u201d Jo said. Devo didn\u2019t care that her childhood best friend had been a theater geek. \u201cYou wanted to see me?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRight!\u201d Devo clapped his hand on his desk, momentarily focused on something other than humming stray bits of Sondheim. \u201cI\u2019m gonna need you to sign a little NDA, \u2019kay?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jo made herself smile with all of her teeth as he pulled a tablet seemingly from thin air and spun it to face her. A stylus was pressed into her hand while she read through the company\u2019s most basic nondisclosure agreement. There were no dollar signs or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome to your new life! <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">notes of congratulation mixed in among the legalese.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She signed it and forced herself to sit back again. \u201cWhat\u2019s up?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWell&#8230;\u201d Devo leaned forward into the space Jo had vacated. \u201cYou may have heard some rumors&#8230;\u201d He trailed off, waiting for her to jump in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDevo,\u201d Jo said, knuckles cracking as she made fists in her lap. \u201cDon\u2019t make me guess. Please. I don\u2019t like guessing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFine,\u201d he said, sulking, shoulders falling down to the desktop. \u201cIt\u2019s all true. We\u2019re being acquired by Fitbit. They\u2019re moving us to their office in the city. I say <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">us <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">but I mean&#8230; well, I don\u2019t mean <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">you<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jo stared at him. Her brain was doing its damnedest to hold on to the words, but she couldn\u2019t quite make herself believe them enough to stick. For a moment, she couldn\u2019t help but imagine everyone lined up in the school gym, Challenge Day style. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everyone who has a job step forward. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The air left her lungs like it\u2019d been punched out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou aren\u2019t\u2014\u201d Jo shook her head and coughed a laugh. \u201cThat can\u2019t be how you\u2019d fire someone, right?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Devo\u2019s lips pulled back into a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">yikes <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was why Gia hadn\u2019t smiled at her. If Jo had really been getting promoted today, Gia would have known first and Gia had a terrible poker face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou can\u2019t fire me,\u201d she said, entering bargaining as quickly as possible. Quandt Corporation simply couldn\u2019t run without her. The higher-ups still needed her help with the new copier and College Kevin was useless with technology bigger than a phone. \u201cI have spent every weeknight for two years cycling through seven social media accounts! Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok! All the stupid new ones that no one uses! I had us on Mastodon! I write the copy! I take the pictures! I got us viral movement on a picture of a fucking nose ring! Our accounts are my babies. I watch them morning, noon, and night.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBut that\u2019s it, Jo,\u201d Devo said, sitting up again and twisting his chair from side to side. \u201cThey aren\u2019t our accounts anymore. They\u2019re Fitbit\u2019s. Well, they\u2019re no one\u2019s. We\u2019ll be starting all-new campaigns when we relaunch, so take screenshots of your babies before they go off to boarding school or whatever\u2014I\u2019m sorry, I really wasn\u2019t following the baby metaphor. Do you think you just stare at babies all day or&#8230; ? Never mind.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He had her sign a termination form and gave her a boiled-chicken handshake. Jo didn\u2019t wipe her palm on her slacks out of a habitual politeness. But by the time she made it to the door\u2014crushed under the weight of a new, shittier reality\u2014she was ready to throw politeness out a window. This was the last time she would ever be in this office, on this floor, in front of this skid mark of nepotism&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Devo said, \u201cOh, wait, Jo\u2014\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Optimism flicked on like a light switch in her chest, making her pause. She turned back, brows high and hopeful. \u201cYeah?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYour Gym Class subscription is a company perk, so it\u2019ll expire after you check out with HR, \u2019kay?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Sandy Point, Oregon<\/b><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>TWO MONTHS LATER.<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rock bottom smelled like the briny dumpster that was the ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jo\u2019s childhood bedroom was childhood small, about the same size as the office she\u2019d cleaned out back in Palo Alto. The walls, small rug, and bedding on the teeny-tiny twin mattress were all hot pink and charcoal gray. The combination might have seemed like haute couture to tweenage Johanna\u2014at the time she also envisioned her prom dress and wedding in the same color scheme\u2014but it made her adult eyes want to bleed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Home sweet home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It took three rounds of wrestling to get the cork out of what Jo had decided to refer to as her <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">first <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bottle of wine, a surprisingly decent Malbec. Especially considering it was also the only Malbec at Fred Meyer. Jo had doubted department-store wine and she was being proven wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, a single win for Jo Freeman. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Woo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sitting on the edge of her tiny bed, she dusted sand off her feet. Her entire hometown was covered in a fine eponymous dust of windblown sand and the inside of the Freeman house was absolutely no exception.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jo couldn\u2019t believe she was back in a town that didn\u2019t even have sidewalks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Separated from Portland by two hours of forest, Sandy Point, Oregon, was the town people stopped in when they got winded on the way to see the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goonies <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">house in Astoria or where they went to walk off all the ice cream and cheese they ate in Tillamook. It wasn\u2019t as quaint a seaside as Seaside and it was too far north to have any of the famous sand dunes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sandy Point only existed because of a roadside attraction that had closed a hundred years ago. The Waterfront Cove resort had been torn down and replaced with a subdivision of McMansions that towered over the otherwise modest neighborhoods. With four thousand residents, it was too populated to be considered cute-small yet remained too small to be practical. There was one post office, one grocery store, and a boardwalk instead of a downtown. The only doubles were nautical bars and empty vacation rentals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cloudy moonlight made the dry-erase-board wall at the end of her twin bed gleam. Arced across the white acrylic were the words <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome Home, Jojo!!! <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in huge letters. She wiped them away with the back of her arm, impatient to start a list of things to dive for in the garage. So far, only the boxes marked <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wardrobe <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">had made it upstairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comforter<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, she wrote. She looked around the room critically. On the other side of the window, the ocean droned on. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Noise machine.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It felt good to list. Like complaining to a friend after a long hard day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Essential oil diffuse\u2014<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overused after a decade of neglect, the marker promptly expired. Jo pitched it aside and reached over to the desk. The single drawer rattled open. Inside were all the ingredients to conjure her teenage self: gel pens, Post-its, digital camera cords, a gunky lip-gloss tube, and a slim journal with a wraparound vintage map of the world as its cover.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The inside cover had Jo\u2019s unchanged handwriting: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If lost, please return to Johanna Jordan Freeman, 22 South Jetty Avenue, Sandy Point, Oregon.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She flipped to the first page. The left-hand margin was studded with scraps, evidence of ripped-out pages. The lists inside the world journal had been too important to be anything short of perfect. These were Jo\u2019s original road maps.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jo Freeman\u2019s Battle Plan to GTFO of Sandy Point FOREVER\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take eight AP classes\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take extension courses at Ocean Park Community College\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Become president of the Honor Society\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Become editor-in-chief of the Sandy Point High yearbook\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get into Stanford\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check check check<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, she thought. All tasks she had accomplished almost a decade ago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Except for becoming president of the Honor Society. Jo had only wanted that because her high school girlfriend Wren had held the office when she was a senior at Point High; Jo\u2019s campaign had been a brief reason for them to talk again while Wren was away at college. Once Jo had lost the race to Bianca Boria, she and Wren had lapsed into a forever silence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She took the journal back to her bed, squishing herself against the window and drawing long pulls from the Malbec bottle. A month ago, this list would have immediately gone up on all of her social media under the hashtag #DopeSinceDayOne. Proof that she had accomplished everything she\u2019d ever dreamed of.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But she hadn\u2019t, really. Because all she ever wanted was to stay gone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She closed her eyes and tipped another gulp of wine into her mouth. Wiping away an errant drop, she bounced the back of her head against the whiteboard wall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After her layoff, she had spent over a month scrambling to find work. Calling all of her contacts. Haunting job sites instead of sleeping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But no one needed a social media director. Or even a slightly overqualified marketing assistant. She could temp or she could leave California. Neither would pay the bills that had started to pile up. After PG&amp;E sent their final notice with her service shut-off date, she broke down and called her mom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMom.\u201d Jo had hated how weak she sounded. It would have been easier if she could have started on equal footing and called her mom Deb. Instead, she felt herself de-age, confessing in a brittle, babyish voice, \u201cMom, I got laid off.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOh, honey, I\u2019m so sorry.\u201d Waves and teaspoons crashed behind Deb. Her footsteps took her farther away from the noise. Jo imagined her mother stepping into the back room of her shop, the one recently converted to a prep kitchen. \u201cYou\u2019re gonna bounce back in an instant. Right now, you need to take yourself out for some fun self-care. A mani-pedi or a nice lunch at that\u2014\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s been a month,\u201d Jo whispered. \u201cAlmost two.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOh,\u201d her mom said, clearly injured and determined not to acknowledge the hurt. \u201cYou tell me what you need.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jo had squeezed her eyes until she saw flashbulb swirls. \u201cI need to store some stuff in your garage for a little while. Just. Everything I own.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnd do you think you\u2019re gonna need to come with that stuff?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYeah,\u201d she said. The finality of it crushed her. \u201cI should probably come, too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tonight, after twelve hours of driving\u2014but only six hours of crying\u2014Jo arrived home to the same elaborate dinner her mom used to make for Jo\u2019s birthday every year. Beef ribs, Grandma Freeman\u2019s recipe for mac and cheese, and a two-tier German chocolate cake. And with the spread, a gift: a pineapple necklace with a card saying <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What doesn\u2019t kill you makes you stronger!\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like it was a party. Like her failure was worth a feast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Jo recoiled at the spread without meaning to, her teenage sister beat their mom to a hug. Eden hugged Jo with loose arms like Jo was someone at a networking event with whom Eden would rather shake hands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMom and Dad closed the store for this,\u201d Eden hissed in her ear, her loose curls scratching against Jo\u2019s cheek. \u201cBe nice, please.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A senior in high school now, Eden was too young to remember when Mr. and Mrs. Freeman had zero days off. For most of Jo\u2019s life, they\u2019d been too busy keeping their various businesses and side hustles afloat. For reasons beyond Jo\u2019s understanding, the change from consignment store to art gallery to tea-and-surf shop seemed to be paying off for her parents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She had been younger than Eden when she wrote out the battle plan to GTFO. The map journal had homework assignments, shopping lists, and names for the paint-your-own-pottery place her parents had debated opening. She got lost in a pro\/con list about whether or not to wear pants to homecoming: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is being subversive really just begging for my classmates to acknowledge my queerness? <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">asked the con list. \u201cYes,\u201d she told her younger self. \u201cDo it anyway\u201d\u2014and relived the drama of deciding to drop out of the yearbook prank. How had life felt so big back then? How could anyone feel like Sandy Point was big enough to breathe in?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The end of the journal and the end of the Malbec bottle occurred around the same time, which was enough like kismet that Jo decided she deserved another slice of leftover German chocolate cake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chocolate and wine are perfect together<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, she thought. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m basically a sommelier<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Definitely a drunk thought. Drunk mission accomplished.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The last page of the map journal was another list\u2014longer than the others, reaching every corner of the page and continuing onto the endpapers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; TP Bianca\u2019s house<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be in a play with Autumn Perform onstage<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Get <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nose TONGUE eyebrow<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> belly button pierced<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Surf the Point<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Host a dinner party<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plan Do<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Redo the yearbook prank<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Have a <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">paintball<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> glitter fight<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Eat the giant sundae at Frosty\u2019s<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Get a pet<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Learn a whole dance routine<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smoke eat brownies<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Get stoned<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Try everything on the menu at TGI Friday\u2019s<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Do a keg stand<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Play hide-and-seek in public<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Pose like a <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">suicide girl<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> pinup girl<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Break a <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">jack-o\u2019-lantern<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> something with a sledgehammer<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Climb the giant anchor on the boardwalk (and survive!!)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Get a <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">perfect <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">high score at the boardwalk arcade<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Host a bonfire party <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">where everyone brings a picture to burn<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Eat breakfast at <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sunrise<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> midnight<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Dig up the time capsule<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Something this messy would never have been allowed if there\u2019d been a page left to rip out. The inks didn\u2019t match, so Jo knew it was a first draft. Some items were written in blue, some with a glittery silver gel pen that wasn\u2019t her handwriting at all, but Autumn Kelly\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was strange to be able to recognize the handwriting of someone she hadn\u2019t seen in almost a decade. But could you ever really forget your old best friend, even when passed notes gave way to internet likes?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The last item on the list sparked Jo\u2019s memory. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dig up the time capsule.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After reading about the idea in a rainy-day activity book when they were eleven, she and Autumn filled a metal tackle box with pictures and toys and letters to their future selves. Having buried it behind the doghouse in the Kellys\u2019 backyard, they agreed to dig it up again after they had done everything worth doing in Sandy Point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It wasn\u2019t supposed to be a long list. Sandy Point wasn\u2019t a big town and nothing much ever happened there. They consulted Autumn\u2019s older brother for dumb townie traditions like climbing the anchor or surfing to the Point. They searched the internet for ideas like \u201cglitter fight.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout junior high and high school, they brainstormed the list whenever conversation dipped. And then suddenly it was nearly senior year and they hadn\u2019t done a single thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The list became official in the back of the map journal. It would be how she and Autumn would spend the end of high school, celebrating the end of childhood by doing every fun thing their town had to offer. Things they\u2019d need to know how to do before college. Things they couldn\u2019t get anywhere else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senior year, Jo split her time between yearbook and working at her parents\u2019 store while Autumn became fully enmeshed in Point High Theater\u2014playing both Dorothy in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wizard of Oz <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and Ado Annie in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oklahoma!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They got distracted. They grew apart. They were childhood best friends and their childhood had already ended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jo half tumbled down the stairs toward the beacon that was her <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome Home from Your Real Life <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cake\u2014inscription not included. She took the journal with her and reread the final list. She couldn\u2019t tick off a single item. Thus far, her life had been void of pets, dinner parties, and sledgehammers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seventeen-year-old me would think I was <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">so boring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She tried not to be offended by the thought. After all, Present!Jo hated Teen!Jo\u2019s bedding, hometown, and wardrobe. If any of Teen!Jo\u2019s ruffled plaid shirts or colorful flip-flops were still around, Present!Jo would throw them into the ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The battle plan had been so clear about who Jo wanted to grow up to be. Someone who made 30 Under 30 lists. Independent, educated, physically fit, head-bitch-in-charge Jo Freeman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, unemployed with zero prospects, Jo had bounced all the way back to the starting line and she couldn\u2019t even live up to her younger self\u2019s dream of doing a keg stand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She wasn\u2019t even sure where kegs came from. Bars? Breweries?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peeling the foil away from her cake, Jo pulled off a bite with her thumb and forefinger, too glum to bother with a fork. The coconut frosting was an adrenaline burst of sugar and fat. She could have cut a piece and taken it back upstairs to her appointment with Second Bottle of Malbec, but something stopped her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the end of the long galley kitchen, past the shelving covered in decades of forgotten juicers and George Foreman grills, was a window. It faced the front yard of the house next door.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bianca Boria\u2019s house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bianca Boria had been Jo\u2019s pace car in high school. If Jo did well, Bianca did better. If Jo worked hard, Bianca worked harder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Jo did everything with sweat in her eyes and the wind in her hair, Bianca glided past her with an easy smile. When people talked shit about her single mom and tattooed grandparents, she didn\u2019t even flinch. She wore a bikini on social media and captioned it <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fat Doesn\u2019t Mean Ugly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, single-handedly bringing body positivity to Point High. She was president of the Honor Society <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prom queen, a feat that rocked the core of their teen social hierarchy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s like living next door to a unicorn<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Jo thought. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or a princess. Or a&#8230; princess unicorn? Nope. That\u2019s the wine talking.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like any self-respecting marketing professional, Jo wasn\u2019t unfamiliar with the art of internet stalking. She knew that Bianca still lived next door\u2014although her mother had moved out\u2014and she was married to a guy whose name Jo didn\u2019t recognize from the yearbook. Jo had tried scrolling through their wedding album\u2014Bianca had worn the poofiest Cinderella dress imaginable\u2014but had been too weirded out when she saw Autumn Kelly as the maid of honor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Autumn and Bianca must have become friends in college. Basically anyone going to college after Point High went to Oregon State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seeing Autumn weepily help Bianca into a wedding dress had flared an uncomfortably territorial feeling in the back of Jo\u2019s mind. She hadn\u2019t been able to enjoy peering into Bianca\u2019s account since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But now, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TP Bianca\u2019s house <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was staring up at her from the top of the list. She took another pinch of cake. Popped it into her mouth. Mashed it into the roof of her mouth. Tried again. Chewed it like a sober girl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She went searching for toilet paper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There was a roll hidden behind eight cans of baked beans from the hall-closet emergency kit and then three rolls from the bathroom that she and Eden now shared upstairs. Jo grabbed her phone and ran out the front door.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Freezing in the pitch-dark, she loped across the sandy driveway toward the yellow glow of Bianca Boria\u2019s porch light. Unlike the Freemans\u2019 house with its dehydrated wood shingles responsible for a million childhood splinters, Bianca\u2019s house was bright white with a pastel-blue door and a yard full of matching hydrangea plants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right in front, nearest to Jo\u2019s house, there was the biggest tree in the neighborhood. An Oregon maple.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supplies set down in the grass, Jo threw a roll of toilet paper at the tree. It bounced off a branch and fell to the ground, dribbling back toward her across the perfectly trimmed grass.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOh. Fuck,\u201d she said out loud, genuinely surprised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She hadn\u2019t come out here to fail at TP-ing. It wasn\u2019t a par game. It was a skill test. She squared her shoulders. Picking up the failed throw, she quickly unwrapped as much of the paper as she could while having a decent handful left on the roll to hold on to. She tossed it again. The little tail flapped between branches while the rest fell to the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Success was a rush even better than a tipsy mouthful of German chocolate cake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She launched more toilet-paper rolls, delighting in the way they floated in the darkness like ghosts. Soon she didn\u2019t feel the cold. Bianca\u2019s lawn rinsed the sand from her feet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If she\u2019d still been wearing a Q-Co tracker\u2014rather than leaving all of them in a toilet at HQ after cleaning out her desk\u2014it would have shown her pulse rate up in the heart-eyes emoji range.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Behind the warm glow of exertion and wine, she imagined TP-ing becoming the next fitness craze. All-black athleisure, ski masks, the pseudo-nemesis of your choosing\u2019s house, a coach in your earpiece screaming something motivational.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Until losing her Gym Class app, Jo never realized how much she would miss the aggressive affirmations. How did people get out of bed without being called a sweat goddess at five thirty every morning?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the tree covered, Jo reached for her phone and took a few pictures of her work. The shot would have been better with her camera and tripod, but they were in boxes in the garage. The picture was just a souvenir, proof to her younger self that she was capable of hitting a goal. Even a stupid one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through her phone lens, she saw that a single roll of toilet paper had fallen to the ground between two tree roots. Determined to leave no roll behind, she scooped it up. Looking for the perfect place to launch it, she ran around the tree, smiling as beatifically as Bianca Boria crushing her GPA. Running the student council. Getting married at twenty-five with the only best friend Jo had ever had by her side&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cJohanna?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bianca Boria stood directly beneath the porch light. For a moment, Jo was positive that Bianca was wearing a long-sleeved evening gown, red-carpet-ready in the middle of the night, but as her eyes adjusted, she realized it was a large plush bathrobe. Bianca\u2019s dark hair was pulled up in a high, elegant bun that had never known frizz. Her skin was clear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jo looked at the last roll weighing down her right hand. She threw it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It bonked Bianca in the nose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jo ran home and didn\u2019t look back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2713<\/span> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TP Bianca\u2019s house<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/About-the-Author-Fall-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ubb-about-author\"><h3>About Lily Anderson<\/h3><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-lily-anderson-350x350.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft ubb-about-author-photo\"><p>Lily Anderson is the author of several novels including THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN ME IS YOU, UNDEAD GIRL GANG, and SCOUT\u2019S HONOR. A former school librarian, she is deeply devoted to Shakespeare, fairy tales, and podcasts. Somewhere in Northern California, she is expressing strong opinions on musical theater. <\/p>\n<p>The Less Formal Version: I\u2019m Lily, the curly haired gal in the pictures. I grew up in the slice of suburbs between Sacramento and San Francisco that never got it together enough to be the Bay Area. After spending my childhood searching for books about other mixed race kids who talk too fast and care too much, I decided to start writing my own. <\/p>\n<p>My books are about snarky girls and emotional intelligence and\u2014sometimes\u2014monsters. As a woman of Afro-Puerto Rican descent, representing a diverse world isn\u2019t a trend for me\u2014it\u2019s my greatest joy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ubb-author-links\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mslilyanderson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ms_lilyanderson\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7842520.Lily_Anderson\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3AMmomT\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mslilyanderson\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Instagram<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Follow-the-Tour-Fall-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><b>Week One<\/b><\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/1\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/brittreadsalattebooks.wordpress.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">brittreadsalattebooks<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excerpt &amp; IG Post<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/2\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/amanisreviews.wordpress.com\/2021\/01\/17\/concrete-rose-is-a-must-read\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amani\u2019s Honest Reviews<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excerpt<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><b>Week Two<\/b><\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/3\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/rajivsreviews.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rajiv&#8217;s Reviews<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/4\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/thepagesinbetween.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Pages In-Between\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/5\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookhounds.net\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BookHounds<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excerpt<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/6\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/curlygrannylovestoread\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@curlygrannylovestoread\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/7\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/lexijavabookish.wordpress.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lexijava_Bookish<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/8\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookreviewcrew.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Book Review Crew<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/9\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/cocoawithbooks.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cocoa With Books<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><b>Week Three<\/b><\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>10\/10\/2021<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kaitgoodwin.com\/books\">Kait Plus Books<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Review<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/11\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CT3JPTjrzPA\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@bookisheclectic\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/12\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/sometimesleelynnreads.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes Leelynn Reads<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/13\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.morebookspleaseblog.wordpress.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Books Please blog<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/14\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/abookishdreamblog.wordpress.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Bookish Dream<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/15\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/enjoyingbooksagain\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@enjoyingbooksagain<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/16\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/myfictionaloasis.wordpress.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My Fictional Oasis<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><b>Week Four<\/b><\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/17\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zaineylaney.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zainey Laney<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/18\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonlightrendezvous.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@moonlight_rendezvous\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/19\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jypsylynn\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@jypsylynn\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/20\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/themommaspot.home.blog\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Momma Spot<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/21\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thephantomparagrapher.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Phantom Paragrapher<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/22\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/coffeebooksandmascara\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">coffeebooksandmascara<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/23\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/blessedmommysc.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lifestyle of Me<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><b>Week Five<\/b><\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/24\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perusewithcoffee.wordpress.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perusewithcoffee<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/25\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pagesofyellow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pagesofyellow\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/26\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/cindysloveofbooks.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cindysloveofbooks<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/27\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/popthebutterfly.wordpress.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Popthebutterfly Reads<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/28\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/am2cents.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">two points of interest<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/29\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/fireandicereads.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fire and Ice<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/30\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/bookbriefs.net\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BookBriefs<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><b>Week Six<\/b><\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/31\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/phanniethegingerbookworm.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phannie the Ginger Bookworm<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Enter-the-Giveaway-Fall-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/e2389ba21339\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enter here to win a print copy of\u00a0<em>The Throwback List<\/em> by Lily Anderson!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>(US Only)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Questions-and-Answers-Fall-2021-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What do you think about <em>The Throwback List<\/em>? Have you added it\u00a0to your tbr yet?\u00a0Let me know in the comments and have a splendiferous day!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Kait-Plus-Books-Signature-Fall-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1322\" height=\"881\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Sunday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for THE THROWBACK LIST by Lily Anderson! I\u2019m so excited to share my review with you today, AND an excerpt, AND more information about the author and tour, PLUS you can enter the giveaway to win a print copy! And now without any further ado, let\u2019s get to the review!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,484,1001,27,30],"tags":[537,12,540,462,3238,3071,196,538,3237],"reading-challenges":[],"class_list":["post-14522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","category-book-tours","category-excerpt","category-giveaways","category-reviews","tag-blog-tour","tag-book-review","tag-giveaway","tag-kait-plus-books","tag-lily-anderson","tag-new-adult","tag-reviews","tag-rockstar-book-tours","tag-the-throwback-list","book-author-lily-anderson","book-publisher-hyperion-avenue","book-genre-contemporary","book-genre-new-adult","book-genre-queer","book-source-netgalley","book-format-audiobook","book-format-earc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/The-Throwback-List-Featured-Image.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14522"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14973,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522\/revisions\/14973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14522"},{"taxonomy":"reading-challenges","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-challenges?post=14522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}