The people, the subway car, the movement of the train as it travels through the tunnel. So she let’s go, lets everything fall away and just is. And it’s so hard to concentrate on the moment that letting go and not thinking about it seems so easy. It’s not uncomfortable, she is warm and safe. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.Sometimes it feels like she’s floating. I can’t wait to see what she will do next. It has been a heartwarming and thoroughly entertaining read.
I loved McQuiston’s Red, White & Royal Blue, so I had been anticipating One Last Stop. In its serious moments, this book explores the prejudice and violence Jane faced as a queer Asian American person in the 1970s. In One Last Stop, McQuiston pulls out all, er, stops, to bring queer history into her sapphic rom-com by choosing a character who was around for the gay liberation movement. I love learning about history, and I know McQuiston’s books are authoritatively researched. This is a rare cover that sets up the story beautifully. There’s NYC in the background and tiny details that you will discover when you read the book. You see August outside the train on the platform holding her gaze in sorrow because they have to part. You see Jane stuck on the train looking out, alone and yearning. But this one is stunning because it encompasses the essence of the whole book in one picture. Through humor and care and a great deal of sensitivity, they bind together into a community, where you can just be and breathe and be accepted. There is a trans Latino psychic, a queer Black engineer, a queer Jewish tattoo artist who struggles with depression, and an accountant who is a larger than life drag Queen at nightfall. The best part of the book is its cast of diverse, quirky, eccentric characters who are August’s found family. I love the brilliance of this book’s imagination, and execution, of a deeply emotional love affair conducted between two train stops. August develops a major crush on her, but over time realizes that she is the only one who can set Jane free.
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She’s been stuck on the Q train for nearly fifty years, and she doesn’t know why she got here or how to return to her time. And she does…until she realizes that Jane is actually a time traveler from the 1970s. From the first, August is entranced and hopes she can meet Jane again and again. NYC has taken a newcomer to its bosom.Īugust meets Asian American Jane Su, in her ripped jeans and leather jacket, on the Q train. And yet, they meld together in one close, wisecracking family. She moves into an apartment with people who are wildly different from each other. She arrives in New York with her entire life in a few boxes. Life circumstances have made Caucasian American August Landry a cynic. Once you leave the train, you cannot envision these people outside that milieu. But during that time, all your senses are trained on the people around you - who you imagine them to be, what you presume their facial expressions reveal about their lives, their personalities.
You descend down under the surface and rise up to the surface on the train while sitting for a period of time with a bunch of strangers, most unrecognizable.
This is a whimsical story that allows you to imagine the train as a world unto itself. One Last Stop is said to be a new adult, queer, magical realism spin on Kate & Leopold.
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