Honey Girl

A refreshingly timely and relatable debut novel about a young woman whose life plans fall apart when she meets her wife. 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 Awork-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 father’s expectationsa struggling job market and feelings of burnoutGrace flees her home in Portland for a summer in New York with the wife she barely knows. In New Yorkshe’s able to ignore all the annoying questions about her future plans and falls hard for her creative and beautiful wifeYuki Yamamoto. But when reality comes crashing inGrace must face what she’s been running from all along–the fears that make us humanthe family scars that need to heal and the longing for connectionespecially when navigating the messiness of adulthood.