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 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. 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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I really liked how mental health was an important topic in this book, not many books do that now a days. Kinda wish there was more Yuki and Grace content but what we got was still beautiful. All in all, a great story. At first and at times it was hard for me to stay engaged, but still good
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I enjoyed this book, but don't have much to say about it. I liked the representation of many different marginalized communities and thought it was very easy to get through. Nothing really stands out to me, but if the synopsis sounds interesting, it's a short book that's likely worth a read!
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