Honey Girl
âI think lonely creatures ache for each other because who else can understand but someone who feels the same dark, black abyss?â
With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girlsâ 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 doesnât knowâ¦until she does exactly that.
This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military fatherâs plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesnât feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under the weight of her fatherâs 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 sheâs been running from all alongâthe fears that make us human, the family scars that need to heal and the longing for connection, especially when navigating the messiness of adulthood.
Product Info
Publisher: â Park Row Books
Date: February 23, 2021
Language: â English
Paperback: â 298 pages
ISBN-13: â 978-0778311027 Full Description
âHONEY GIRL is an emotional, heartfelt, charming debut, and I loved every moment of it.â
â 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 girlsâ trip to Vegas to celebrate. Sheâs 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 doesnât knowâ¦until she does exactly that.
This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military fatherâs plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesnât feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under the weight of her parentâs 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, sheâs 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 sheâs been running from all alongâthe fears that make us human, the family scars that need to heal and the longing for connection, especially when navigating the messiness of adulthood. Content Warnings
Discussion and depictions of mental illness
Self-harm (scratching skin, nails digging into skin as anxiety coping mechanism)
Past suicide attempt by side character
Depictions of anti-Blackness and homophobia in the academic and corporate settings
Casual alcohol consumption
Minor drug use (marijuana)
Discussions of racism experienced by all characters of color
Past limb amputation due to war injury (side character)
Past parent death (side character
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