Jane’s circumstances are also far from ordinary: she’s from the 1970s, displaced in time by a mysterious event. But before long she finds herself falling for Jane Su, a punk lesbian she sees everyday on her commute. She is, as her new roommate puts it, “a reformed girl detective,” and she’s jaded and bitter enough to earn the title. At 23, August Landry moves to Brooklyn with few belongings but heaps of emotional baggage from a childhood spent helping her conspiracy theorist mother work to track down a long-missing relative. Maybe it's time to start believing in some things, after all.McQuiston’s joyful sophomore romp mixes all the elements that made Red, White & Royal Blue so outstanding-quirky characters, coming-of-age confusion, laugh-out-loud narration, and hilarious pop-cultural references (“Bella Swan, eat your horny little Mormon heart out”)-into something totally its own. She's literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her. August's subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there's one big problem: Jane doesn't just look like an old school punk rocker. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August's day when she needed it most. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. And there's certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures.īut then, there's this gorgeous girl on the train.
She can't imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that.
An artful touch of science fiction allows history and modern times to literally collide, providing the unique opportunity to pay homage to LGBTQIAP+ activists from the past and illustrate how greatly their work impacted the present.įor cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don't exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. But beyond that, there’s a complexity to this book as well. One Last Stop is a sweet love story filled with exquisite yearning and stolen kisses, and like many readers will do, I lost my heart to Jane.
She’s been displaced from the 1970s by mysterious means. Incidentally, the Q is the only place where August can be with Jane because Jane is lost-in time. And ends up finding an unexpected community in her quirky roommates and coworkers and unexpected love from beautiful punk rocker Jane Su, whom she meets on the Q train subway line. In Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop, the misfits and outcasts are drawn together because of-not in spite of-their differences, which include sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, and race, among other things, and I didn’t want to leave that found family behind when I reached the last page.Īn expert in finding missing persons, twenty-three-year-old August moves to New York City to find herself. As a result, I’ve spent a great deal of my life yearning for a sense of belonging. That feeling didn’t entirely go away at home either, because my mom, grandma, older siblings, and enormous extended family were pure Asian. Growing up mixed-race in suburban Minnesota, I always felt painfully different from my Caucasian peers.
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