I think that all love stories should have some element of yearning to be compelling, but when it's a queer love story, I feel like if you don't have that element of yearning, it sometimes doesn't work. Especially in romance, I feel like we always need more of them.īut in terms of longing, I think that so much of the queer experience is yearning.

This is somebody who is, on the page, described as somebody worth longing for because I don't think that butch lesbians get their due. One Last Stop is a 2021 LGBT romance novel written by American author Casey McQuiston.The novel is about a woman named August Landry, a cynical pseudo detective, who finds love in a woman she meets on a subway named Jane Su, a punk Lesbian from the 1970s who has been misplaced in time and is trapped on the subway. When I set out to write this book, one of my objectives was to write a book in which the love interest is a butch lesbian.

Martin's Griffin 'A dazzling romance, filled with plenty of humor and heart. That's a common theme in romance in general, but it's kind of turning it on its head to have it be in a woman-loving-woman (wlw) context. Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop is a magical, sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time. There are these really rich descriptions of Jane as someone to desire. In 'One Last Stop,' you give us so much of August longing for Jane before they're actually together. 'One Last Stop' has similar themes to 'Red, White, and Royal Blue,' but McQuiston shows her growth as an author in the book casey mcquiston 13 days until ONE LAST STOP (caseymcquiston) May 17, 2021. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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