Friends, I LOVED THIS.  My wife told me to read it back in 2021 and I shoulda listened!  Because it’s delightful.  Overachiever, Grace Porter, has been driving herself with an unrelenting focus for the past 11 years to get her PhD in astronomy.  As a black queer woman in STEM, she’s having to work twice as hard as any of her white colleagues to try to prove herself the best.  She can’t settle for anything less (thanks to a seriously tough relationship with military dad).  

When she spends a single weekend in Vegas with her friends and wakes up to find herself married to Yuki, a rose cheeked girl she can only hazily remember, she finds herself floundering and lost for the first time since she can remember.  With nothing left of her new wife aside from a hastily written note, a key, a photo, and a wedding ring, she finds herself clinging to the beautiful memory of the happiness she felt with this dream girl.  But what happens when you try to merge fantasy with reality?  Can The Plan survive these detours?

Favorite Parts - The Friends - OMG, folks, the friends of both of Yuki and Grace are EVERYTHING.  I love how well embodied they are, they are wonderful and diverse and funny, and I want more of them.  I also love that Yuki has a radio show about cryptids and other lonely creatures.  The therapy - seriously, many of the characters struggle with serious, real mental health challenges, and these are not done lightly.  A big plot point involves Grace finally reaching out to a therapist and I found that journey very realistic and was awesome about normalizing the process and not sugar coating it.

Read This If You - need a queer Asian manic pixie dream girl, have ever struggled with feeling like you don’t know what you’re doing with your life, have ever wanted a wacky posse of feral queer friends.