In Stay Sweet, Amelia finds herself knocked off course and trying to figure out what her future entails after the unexpected death of her boss and appointment of a young male boss. Often times in contemporary, we don’t see how much work and research goes into it because we associate worldbuilding with SFF but it’s actually an important element in Stay Sweet. Setting the stage for the dynamics young people face today leads to the messages of feminism. Stay Sweet lives in the modern world and straddles WWII with Molly’s journal and ultimately becomes about its characters and the relationships between them.