One Day in the Life of Alexa — Lisa Mason

How long do you want to live? Alexa Denisovitch, a refugee from Kosovo during the 1999 war, is just seventeen when she is accepted by GenGineer Laboratories as a Tester for Longeva, a revolutionary additive that may significantly extend her longevity. But becoming a Tester has unintended consequences and Longeva causes devastating unforeseen side effects. Confronting environmental, political, and personal perils of the future, Alexa must grapple with the tough questions of life, love, and death. Lisa Mason has published eight novels including Summer of Love (a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book), The Gilded Age (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book), Strange Ladies: 7 Stories (a collection of previously published short fiction), and two dozen stories and novellas in magazines and anthologies worldwide. Her Omni story, “Tomorrow's Child,” sold outright as a feature film to Universal Studios. Literary agent: Mark Gottlieb, Trident Media Group