Seconds by Bryan Lee O'Malley

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O'Malley, Bryan Lee. Seconds. New York: Ballantine, 2014. Print. ISBN-13: 9780345529374. Hardcover. Cost: $25.00.

Awards:
-#1 New York Times  Bestseller

Annotation:
Even pushing 30, some people have a lot of growing up to do, whether they want to or not.

Booktalk:
Katie is an accomplished chef-owner at Seconds, building a another restaurant, and the talk of the city. So she can't understand why she is so miserable. While trying to ignore her terrible mood by basking in the success of Seconds, she accidentally causes a waitress to be injured in the kitchen.

Trying to make sense of her life, Katie goes to bed above Seconds that night wishing she could fix what had happened. She dreams of a package in her dresser that had never been there before, bearing a note reading:

1. Write your mistake

2. Ingest one mushroom

3. Go to sleep

4. Wake anew

Following the instructions in her dream, Katie finds her mistake reversed and life happier with the possibilities of her new power. But changing the past can make the present a lot more confusing, forcing her to realize exactly why she is jumping at second chances, instead of leaving Seconds behind.