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A LibraryReads Pick
"HONEY GIRL is an emotional, heartfelt, charming debut, and I loved every moment of it."
— Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal
When becoming an adult means learning to love yourself first.
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.
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February 23, 2021 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781488210754
- File size: 293787 KB
- Duration: 10:12:03
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Narrator York Whitaker gives a mixed performance of this charming novel about finding your purpose in the unlikeliest of places. To celebrate finishing her PhD, Grace leaves Portland, Oregon, and heads to Las Vegas, where she marries a woman she hardly knows. Overwhelmed by postdoctoral choices, she spends the summer getting to know her new wife. Whitaker excels at voicing Grace's internal monologues but falls short voicing other characters. The diverse and engaging cast, who range from Grace's parents to her found family, all sound about the same. As a result, the dialogue is hard to follow. Nonetheless, listeners will appreciate the way Whitaker brings the novel's beautiful prose to life. L.S. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine -
May 1, 2021
Grace Porter has her PhD in astronomy in hand and is ready to embark on her professional career. To celebrate her graduation, responsible, hard-working, overachieving Grace lets her hair down with a girls' trip to Vegas. When she awakens in Vegas with fuzzy memories of vodka-fueled hours, it slowly dawns on her that she got married last night. Her new wife has vanished, leaving only a business card. Grace returns to Portland but is unable to forget the beautiful woman who is at once a stranger and her wife. Under the weight of her parents' expectations and unable to find a job, Grace soon abandons her life plans and heads to New York City to find Yuki, her new wife. She moves in with Yuki and her roommates, who are more like family, and the couple grows closer. Despite their mutual attraction, Grace's emotional scars may make the marriage impossible. Grace is a vivid, realistic character, and York Whittaker's engaging narration is exceptional in creating a rich portrait of this multifaceted figure. VERDICT Listeners will relish this Own Voices debut love story, which focuses on Grace as a young Black woman trying to find a place in her family and in the world.--Maureen Roberts, Baltimore Cty. P.L.
Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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March 1, 2021
In the late eighteenth century, Nella owns an apothecary specializing in remedies for women, with a brisk side business in poisons. Her latest customer is Eliza, a servant girl charged with procuring poison for her mistress. Nella's dreams of motherhood were destroyed by a callous young man, and Eliza is curious about the intricacies of Nella's business. The two form a tenuous bond that quickly strengthens when Nella's livelihood is threatened. In the present day, Caroline's romantic anniversary trip to London becomes a solo sojourn because of her husband's infidelity. Determined to make the best of the situation, Caroline joins a mudlarking expedition and finds a mysterious bottle in the river. Her investigation into the bottle's provenance unravels the long-hidden mystery of Nella's apothecary, while also reminding Caroline of her pre-marriage dreams. Penner finds clever parallels between Nella and Caroline, and avoids the pitfall of one storyline outshining the other--all three women have compelling tales, and while Nella's business may not be on the up-and-up, her motives are understandable. Readers who enjoy Katherine Howe and Susanna Kearsley will be drawn to this promising, fast-paced debut.COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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