Honey Girl: A Novel

by Morgan Rogers

Paperback, 2021

Status

Available

Call number

FICTL Roge

Tags

Fiction, Romance, Black

Genres

Collection

Michael C. Weidemann LGBT Library at Gay City

Publication

Park Row (2021), Edition: Original, 304 pages

Description

Fiction. Literature. Romance. LGBTQIA+ (Fiction.) HTML:Named Most Anticipated of 2021 by Oprah Magazine * Marie Claire * Ms. Magazine * E! * Parade Magazine * Buzzfeed * Cosmo * The Rumpus * GoodReads * Autostraddle * Brit & Co * Refinery29 * Betches * BookRiot and others! A LibraryReads Pick "HONEY GIRL is an emotional, heartfelt, charming debut, and I loved every moment of it." �?? Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal When becoming an adult means learning to love yourself first. With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls' trip to Vegas to celebrate. She's a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. 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, a struggling job market and feelings of burnout, 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 adul… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member Hccpsk
Readers looking to read broadly and diversely could do a lot worse than the NA lesbian romance Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers. Grace Porter has been grinding it out for eleven years to prove to everyone — but especially her dad, The Colonel — that she can achieve the highest success in her chosen
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 field of Astronomy. Now that she has that Ph.D., she is frozen with fear of the unknown and unplanned. A crazy trip to Las Vegas only adds to her confusion when she finds herself married to the mysterious Yuki, a woman who lives across the country in New York. Although billed as a romance, Honey Girl is not a fluff piece; it takes a real look at mental health, social justice, and finding oneself after college. It is also an excellent book about lesbian joy with strong characters who are not struggling with their sexual identities — just everything else:)
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LibraryThing member DaisyDate
Great book, very sweet and wholesome. It definitely touched on a wide range of issues such as racism, difficult family relationships and mental health. I loved the causal portrayal of the queer people and relationships in the story, made me feel warm inside. I did cry so much throughout it because
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 I related to so much but it was so good and therapeutic.
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LibraryThing member banjo123
I read this romance for the lesbian book club. It is so annoying, the author obviously did no research. For example, her main character just got a PhD in Astronomy, in Portland. (There are no PhD programs for Astrology in Oregon.) Also, she keeps describing Redwood trees in Portland.

The part of
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 the book that was interesting to me was the main character's struggles with her father and his high expectations/demands. He is an African-American military man, so it makes sense, and it's interesting to think about it's impact on our character as she realized that this kind of perfectionism wasn't really serving her.

However, most of the book focussed on her relationships with friends and the woman she meets and marries in one day, in Vegas. That all was a bit tedious for me, though I imagine some younger queer readers would enjoy it.
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LibraryThing member forsanolim
Shortly after finishing her PhD in astronomy, Grace Porter accidentally gets quite drunk in Vegas and ends up marrying a woman she literally just met that evening. So that's fun.

This book fulfilled all of my expectations and rendered me an emotional mess, and I am so glad I read it. I had thought
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 that this book was going to be a bit fluffier than it ended up being, and I suspect that some people will be disappointed by that. It's definitely sweet and cute (the protagonist and her love interest are both adorable), but there's also a lot going on in Grace's life that independently is really important in this story. There are really strong mental health themes and themes of self-discovery/trying to find one's place in the world, with strong helpings of academia/grad school. I found the prose absolutely gorgeous (somewhat flowery, but in a really lovely way), and in general I'm so, so glad that I picked this one up.

I imagine that this would definitely be most impactful for new-adult readers.
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LibraryThing member Jenniferforjoy
Wow I didn't like this. I want entertained in any way and just really didn't enjoy it. I'm bored by Yuki saying Deep Thoughts and calling herself a monster. I felt like she was trying to be the emo kid when I was thirteen. Boring and unfounded. Porter isn't better, with her Issues. The overall
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 story is quite boring, and the latter half is actual pages of conversation with a therapist. It felt like a cheap way to let people get a therapy taster, but unless the author has a psych practice, I feel weird about writing actual therapist conversations out. Nothing was a surprise. I didn't really like any of the characters. It was less of a story and more like a diary.
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LibraryThing member reader1009
audio fiction (10+ hours) - queer Black/mixed race astronomy PhD Grace Porter from Portland, Oregon can't stop thinking about a Japanese American woman Yuki she met/married one night in Las Vegas.

Feb 2024 bingo challenge: two word title, Black cover model, published in February

Awards

NPR: Books We Love (2021)
LibraryReads (Monthly Pick — February 2021)

Language

English

Original language

English

Original publication date

2021-02-23

ISBN

0778311023 / 9780778311027

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