Honey Girl

Grace Porter has finished her doctorate in astronomy, but the achievement has not brought the certainty she expected. A celebratory trip to Las Vegas ends with an impulsive marriage to a woman she barely knows, disrupting the carefully ordered life she has worked to build. Exhausted by professional uncertainty and family expectations, Grace spends a summer in New York getting to know her wife, Yuki Yamamoto. Their growing connection offers a different way to imagine her future, though it cannot erase the difficulties waiting for her. The novel follows Grace through burnout, intimacy and the difficult work of deciding what she wants beyond other people’s measures of success.