![]() 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. ![]() Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop begins with August Landry answering an apartment ad taped on a trash can. ![]()
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