It’s taken me days to sit with it and unpack my feelings, and I’m finally ready to talk to you about it!Ĭarrie: I loved the romance, the mystery, and the contrasts between being LGBTQIA today versus in the 1970s, but what really sucked me in was the found family aspect, which is aways my catnip and which I think has also been a crucial element of survival for marginalized people in the past and remains one today. Also, this book has that ineffable something that hooked me right from the beginning and kept me interested all the way through. I’ve been reading up on the history of the early punk movement, so I was VERY interested in everything Jane had to say about her life and the time she’s from.
In part, that’s because it came at exactly the right time, so it felt like a gift specifically for me. Tara: I truly wasn’t prepared for how much I loved this book. Honestly Tara and I (Carrie) weren’t sure if we would love this book or hate it but we fell heavily into the ‘love’ camp. It will take all of August’s resources, brain power, and newly found family to help Jane get unstuck. Jane boarded the subway sometime in the 1970s and hasn’t been able to age or leave the train since then. Meanwhile, August is desperately and instantly smitten with Jane, but there’s a teensy problem. However, her apartment roommates and neighbors are clearly not going to stand for that. When August moves to New York, she intends to do what she’s done her whole life, namely, keep to herself. One Last Stop is the tale of August, a young woman who has recently moved to New York City, and Jane, the mysterious woman that August meets on the subway. Agent: Sara Megibow, KT Literary.Genre: Contemporary Romance, LGBTQIA, Time Travel, RomanceĬW/TW: reference to a historical hate crime against LGBTQ people
With all the fun and camp of a drag show (of which this novel features more than one) but grounded in the tenderness of first love, this time-slip rom-com is an absolute delight. Together with her found family of queer misfits, August sets out to save Jane and find herself. Worse, she’s stuck on the bizarrely malfunctioning Q line, doomed to ride the Subway forever in an amnesiac’s fog-unless August can find a way to rescue her. 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. 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.
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