![]() ![]() Every time she boards a Q train, she runs into Jane, a smoldering-hot punk rocker in ripped jeans and black leather. But mostly August finds it in the New York City subway system. ![]() She finds it at Pancake Billy’s House of Pancakes, the Brooklyn institution where she waitresses, and she finds it among the queer community that comes together to try to save the diner from gentrification. ![]() She finds it with her quirky roommates: Niko, a trans psychic who knows August’s heart before August knows she has one his girlfriend, Myla, an eccentric sculptor who works in frog bones and mousetrap parts and Wes, a tattoo artist who’s cast off his blue blood family lines to drift ever closer to the red hot drag queen down the hall. In its first pages, the mother of reformed softy August remembers the impact of John Cusack and his boombox on the childhood psyche of her daughter, the twenty-three-year-old heroine of McQuiston’s sophomore effort : “You were always crying your eyes out to that Peter Gabriel song.”Ĭameron Crowe’s classic continues to crop up as cynical August finds again and again exactly what she’s trying to avoid with a move to Brooklyn (“somewhere big enough to get lost in, where being alone looks like a choice”): love and acceptance. ![]() Say Anything, the iconic 1989 teen dramedy, gets a lot of ink in Casey McQuiston’s contemporary queer rom-com One Last Stop. ![]()
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