The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. Small yellow caps at the top reads “A novel”. Below this, in large white writing, the title “Honey Girl”. The author’s name “Morgan Rogers” is at the bottom of the cover in dark purplish red. The background is the same colour as the author’s name. Down the length of the centre, art of a young black woman with long, wavy, light hair. She is wearing a white button up shirt, black lipstick and gold hoop earrings. There are orange and red flowers in her hair. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Self-Harm
• Racism
• Panic Attacks
• Homophobia
• Casual Alcohol Consumption
• Minor Drug Use (Marijuana)
• References to Past Suicide Attempt

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Summary:

With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She is 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.

This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father’s plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesn’t feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under the weight of her father’s 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.

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Notes:

There is an audiobook.

There is an ebook/Kindle edition.

This book was nominated for a 2021 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Debut Novel.

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Archivist Comments:

I think the MC is biracial, and her love interest is Japanese-American. A lot of side characters are also queer POC.

The reviews on this one are sort of split down the middle. I’ve seen a lot of people who said that, given the “Vegas marriage” trope, they were expecting a rom-com but then were surprised that it wasn’t. I’ve seen others say that that it’s more like a “coming of age” story for adults, which is quite interesting. Some people have said that the author’s writing is far too repetitive and metaphorical, particularly around the MC’s appearance, and others have said that it was warm and solid because the writer was clearly comfortable in her writing style.

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