Anticipated queer romance novel Honey Girl is end of summer perfection
During August, we’re reading Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers, a refreshingly timely and relatable debut novel about a high-achieving young woman whose life plans fall apart when she meets her wife. Join the discussions August 12 and August 31 at 7pm Pacific.
Since reading On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong in May, I’ve wanted to select another queer love story for the book club. Torn between a well-known, possibly unread-classic and a new release, I did what I always do when something incredibly important happens: turn to Instagram.
I polled and y’all answered, “2021 Release” (57%) beat out “Classic novel” (43%).
Refreshingly timely and relatable, Honey Girl is about a high-achieving young woman whose life plans fall apart when she meets her wife. Based on the synopsis, the anticipated debut novel by Morgan Rogers seems like the perfect reading selection to end summer.
Join us Thursday, August 12 at 7pm Pacific to discuss chapters 1 through 11, and again on Tuesday, August 31 at 7pm Pacific to discuss the reminder of the novel. I’m stoked to discover Morgan Rogers’s writing together. Email for Zoom link!
Catch ya’ between the pages.
Synopsis: With her newly completed PhD in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to celebrate. She’s a certified high achiever, 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.
Staggering under the weight of her parents’ expectations, a struggling job market and feelings of burnout, Grace flees her home in Portland for a summer in New York with the wife she barely knows. When reality comes crashing in, Grace must face what she’s been running from all along—the fears that make us human, the family scars that need to heal and the longing for connection, especially when navigating the messiness of adulthood.
About the author: Morgan Rogers is a queer Black millennial who writes books for queer girls looking for their place in the world.