![]() ![]() ![]() Seeing the title on the Gilmore Girls reading list gave me an excuse to finally read this book, though I have to admit some surprise that it’s on the list at all. The first I heard of it was when the 2003 adaptation came out starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as the body-swapping mother and daughter. Given my childhood preoccupation with trading lives, you’d think I would have discovered “Freaky Friday” as a kid, but somehow, it slipped by me. ![]() This also happens to be the plot of Mary Rodgers’ 1972 young adult novel “Freaky Friday,” in which a mother and daughter switch bodies for a day. What would the world look like through someone else’s eyes, from someone else’s point of view, with someone else’s family? The idea intrigued me. When I was about seven or eight years old, I wanted desperately to trade places with someone, just for a day. ![]()
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