"Honey Girl" by Morgan Rogers

SYNOPSIS (from goodreads)
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 parent’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 constant 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.

REVIEW
I went into this thinking this was going to be a cute book about two women drunkenly getting married in Vegas but what I got was sooo much better. It’s been a while since I connected so much with a character.

This is very much a coming of age story—which is interesting because the lead is a 29 year old with a doctorate in astronomy. She’s still struggling to find her place in the world and is constantly being held back by racism. She’s also dealing with her own mental health issues and learning to love and accept herself before she can really dedicate time and energy into establishing a true connection with her new wife.

This book explores issues that feel very current and important based on where we are at as a society today and highlights a perspective that is often overlooked.

Really well done.

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