The best part of the book is its cast of diverse, quirky, eccentric characters who are August’s found family. I love the brilliance of this book’s imagination, and execution, of a deeply emotional love affair conducted between two train stops. August develops a major crush on her, but over time realizes that she is the only one who can set Jane free. She’s been stuck on the Q train for nearly fifty years, and she doesn’t know why she got here or how to return to her time. And she does…until she realizes that Jane is actually a time traveler from the 1970s. From the first, August is entranced and hopes she can meet Jane again and again. NYC has taken a newcomer to its bosom.Īugust meets Asian American Jane Su, in her ripped jeans and leather jacket, on the Q train. And yet, they meld together in one close, wisecracking family. She moves into an apartment with people who are wildly different from each other. She arrives in New York with her entire life in a few boxes. Life circumstances have made Caucasian American August Landry a cynic. Once you leave the train, you cannot envision these people outside that milieu. But during that time, all your senses are trained on the people around you - who you imagine them to be, what you presume their facial expressions reveal about their lives, their personalities. You descend down under the surface and rise up to the surface on the train while sitting for a period of time with a bunch of strangers, most unrecognizable.

This is a whimsical story that allows you to imagine the train as a world unto itself. One Last Stop is said to be a new adult, queer, magical realism spin on Kate & Leopold.

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