7.4 /10 1 Votes
3.8/5 YA Books Central Language English Media type Print (Hardback) ISBN 978-1-59514-491-1 Genre Fiction Publisher Penguin Books | 3.6/5 Goodreads Country United States Publication date November 21, 2011 Pages 356 Originally published 21 November 2011 Page count 356 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Characters Josh Templeton, Sydney Mills, Cody Grainger Similar Jay Asher books, Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Future of Us is a 2011 contemporary fiction novel written by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler. The novel was published on November 21, 2011 by Razorbill, a division of Penguins Young Readers Group.
Contents
Plot
Josh and Emma are about to discover themselves—fifteen years in the future.
It's 1996, and Josh and Emma have been neighbors their whole lives. They've been best friends almost as long—at least, up until last November, when everything changed. Things have been awkward ever since then, but when Josh's family gets a free AOL CD-ROM in the mail, his mom makes him bring it over so that Emma can install it on her new computer. When they sign on, they're automatically logged onto Facebook-but Facebook hasn't been invented yet. Josh and Emma are looking at themselves fifteen years in the future. Their spouses, careers, homes, and status updates—it's all there. And every time they refresh their pages, their futures change. As they grapple with the ups and downs of their future, they're forced to confront what they're doing right—and wrong—in the present.
Reception
The novel has received mixed to positive reviews. The film option rights for the movie version of the book has been sold to Warner Bros.