Honey Girl
Grace, a recent PhD graduate, wakes up married in Vegas, with dim memories of the night, the girl, and the magic. Thrown into crisis, she decides to take a break and find the girl–and maybe herself.
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My Review
Grace Porter is on a path. She’s finished her PhD in astronomy and is ready to move into her successful career. But her field doesn’t seem quite as ready to welcome her–a biracial lesbian–into the fold.
That’s the first deviation from her path. The second is waking up in Vegas–married. She has dim memories of the night, the girl, and the magic. Thrown into crisis, she decides to take a break and find the girl–and maybe herself.
Rogers has a beautiful writing voice that feels a little dreamy at times, but is also oh-so-real. There is a lovely romance in this book, but the love stories that truly shine are between Grace and her friends. There are a number of them here, and Rogers gives them each small moments that remind us–and Grace–that they are not just supporting characters in her life. Even with this support system, she–and all of them–need to face the things everyone does: loneliness, confusion, identity, mental health, and finding their path.
Publisher’s Description
A refreshingly timely and relatable debut novel about a young woman whose life plans fall apart when she meets her wife. With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She’s a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that.
This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father’s plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesn’t feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under the weight of her father’s expectations, a struggling job market and feelings of burnout, Grace flees her home in Portland for a summer in New York with the wife she barely knows. In New York, she’s able to ignore all the annoying questions about her future plans and falls hard for her creative and beautiful wife, Yuki Yamamoto. But when reality comes crashing in, Grace must face what she’s been running from all along–the fears that make us human, the family scars that need to heal and the longing for connection, especially when navigating the messiness of adulthood.
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