She doesn’t even know how long she’s been on the Q. Jane, who’s been trapped on the Q train since the 1970s, remembers nothing about her old life, and needs August’s help.Īt first, Jane doesn’t know her own last name. Jane, who’s been everywhere and seen everything, and knows how to start a dance party on the train with a cassette player and a grin. One Last Stop is about these relationships, but, oh yes, it’s also about the extraordinarily hot butch named Jane Su, who August meets on the Q train one day. (The novel does eventually resolve this, in a way I won’t spoil here.) Once August settles in, though, she begins making friends with her roommates by accident, and with her fellow employees at Billy’s, the 24-hour pancake house where she finds a part-time job. She’s spent her life helping her single mother, who’s spent decades obsessed with solving the mystery of how her brother-August’s uncle Augie-disappeared, and whether or not he’s still alive. But she moves into the apartment with Niko the literal psychic, Myla the sculptor cum electrical engineer, and Wes the tattoo artist recluse. Call Niko.” August is skeptical, but she doesn’t have much of a choice: she’s just moved to Brooklyn from outside New Orleans with almost no money and a college degree to finish. 'A dazzling romance, filled with plenty of humor and heart.Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop begins with August Landry answering an apartment ad taped on a trash can.

Maybe it’s time to start believing in some things after all. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile.Īugust’s subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon she discovers there’s one big problem: Jane is displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane.

Moving to New York City is supposed to prove cynical twenty-three-year-old August right: magic and cinematic love stories don’t exist.īut then, she meets this gorgeous girl on the train. From Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes One Last Stop, a romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks.

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