![]() ![]() ![]() That she lands an apartment above a Popeyes that comes pre-furnished with a fascinating, funny queer family might be dismissed as dumb luck. The aforementioned New Orleans native is trying to escape the missing persons case that dominated her childhood, finally finish her undergraduate degree, and find a city that will confirm her pessimism about trust and vulnerability. Our protagonist, August Landry, doesn't start out with that sunny of an outlook. Maybe the kitchen smells that cling to your clothes after your waitressing shift are a perfume. Maybe public transportation is a venue for meet-cutes and little moments of kindness. Casey McQuiston's second novel, which charts the love story of a closed-off recent Louisiana transplant and a butch punk heartthrob who is trapped on a subway line, has such warmth spilling out of it that suddenly everything you've dismissed as cliche about the city feels new and earned. ![]() Not that it's by any means the most important thing about it, but One Last Stop is incredible New York City propaganda. ![]()
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