Also, at one point, August recollects a conversation with Jane about how Jane used to go to drag shows and drag balls in the ‘70s. The tenant across the hall from August and her crew is a notable New York drag queen who goes by the name Annie Depressant, and we often see her and her fellow queens at parties and performances. Tara: Someone make me an Introvert Closet stat!Īs someone who inhaled the entire RuPaul’s Drag Race franchise last year, I was also excited to see drag culture represented in the story. Tara: I’m so party averse, I don’t know that I could have lasted longer than half an hour, but there was definitely something magical about them.Ĭarrie: They are such accepting people we could have an Introvert Closet with beanbags and books and they would slide pancakes under the door for us.
#One last stop review full
The parties in this book are magic dream parties full of acceptance, exuberance, and joy and I love them. The overall sense of community is so vibrant, it makes me want to be a part of it.Ĭarrie: As a subset of the found family thing, this book has the most amazing parties and I felt like I had been to those parties even though I haven’t ever been to one like that and wouldn’t have known what to do with myself if I had. They’re just more like extended family rather than immediate, which I don’t recall often seeing in fiction. I also appreciated that while August doesn’t become as close with her coworkers as she does her roommates, they’re part of her found family too. Typical Virgo bullshit.”Īugust’s friends show up for her in a big way, whether it’s helping her find a job, moving furniture for her, or cracking the mystery of why Jane is stuck on the subway so they can get her unstuck. All this, and you still don’t believe in things. “I thought you said virginity was a construct.”
#One last stop review cracked
For example, I cracked up when a hungover August moans “I wish I were never born,” and Wes responds only with “Retweet.” Or when August confides her pining for Jane to Myla, and they have this exchange: So many of the funniest parts of the book are exchanges between August and her roommates. The rules are, no Tarantino movies and bedtime is never.” “Anyway,” Myla says, turning to open the freezer. In fact, the first thing I highlighted, because I loved it so much, was the response August gets when she explains why she didn’t have the best childhood or relationship with her mom.
Tara: Yes, I loved how August’s roommates decided they were going to make her part of their queerdo family.
I was afraid I would find August’s roomies to be too twee but, my lord, I just adored all of them, not to mention her unrealistically forgiving employers and co-workers (August gets a job at Pancake Billy’s House of Pancakes and almost immediately starts missing a lot of shifts, which I’m pretty sure wouldn’t fly in real life). It’s taken me days to sit with it and unpack my feelings, and I’m finally ready to talk to you about it!Ĭarrie: I loved the romance, the mystery, and the contrasts between being LGBTQIA today versus in the 1970s, but what really sucked me in was the found family aspect, which is aways my catnip and which I think has also been a crucial element of survival for marginalized people in the past and remains one today. Also, this book has that ineffable something that hooked me right from the beginning and kept me interested all the way through. I’ve been reading up on the history of the early punk movement, so I was VERY interested in everything Jane had to say about her life and the time she’s from. In part, that’s because it came at exactly the right time, so it felt like a gift specifically for me. Tara: I truly wasn’t prepared for how much I loved this book.
Honestly Tara and I (Carrie) weren’t sure if we would love this book or hate it but we fell heavily into the ‘love’ camp. It will take all of August’s resources, brain power, and newly found family to help Jane get unstuck. Jane boarded the subway sometime in the 1970s and hasn’t been able to age or leave the train since then. Meanwhile, August is desperately and instantly smitten with Jane, but there’s a teensy problem. However, her apartment roommates and neighbors are clearly not going to stand for that. When August moves to New York, she intends to do what she’s done her whole life, namely, keep to herself. One Last Stop is the tale of August, a young woman who has recently moved to New York City, and Jane, the mysterious woman that August meets on the subway. Genre: Contemporary Romance, LGBTQIA, Time Travel, RomanceĬW/TW: reference to a historical hate crime against LGBTQ people
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