Honey Girl

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Rogers, Morgan	4-week checkout	Due 05-24-2024

"With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, 28-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls' 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 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, 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."--Publisher's description.

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Emotional and real submitted by gmarievincen on June 14, 2022, 11:47am Honey Girl is beautiful and raw, highlighting complexities in intersectionality, harm in expectations of perfection, and struggles with mental illness, loneliness, and dynamics in relationships. Rogers speaks to us through the experiences of a twenty-something fighting what many of us face; trying to discover what allows us to thrive and finding our own sense of self and belonging.

Highly recommend submitted by Beatlesfan04 on June 29, 2022, 12:26am This was one of the best books I’ve read in awhile. It is so relatable and real especially for millennials and gen z. I’m so glad there’s more books with diverse representation and showing the real challenges faced by someone at that intersection of age and identity, trying to find out who they are and what they want from life.

Good Read submitted by ibell.felder on August 19, 2023, 6:39pm Honey Girl was a delightful, yet intense, read. I enjoyed the character development and interactions. Appreciated the authenticity of both friend group dynamics— amongst themselves and incorporating the MC.