Casey McQuiston’s new book, One Last Stop, is as much of a love story between the main characters as it is to New York. Their bestselling novel, Red, White, and Royal Blue, gave us a dream-like parallel universe of what 2020 would have looked like had America continued a progressive trajectory and hadn’t descended into a worldwide pandemic. One Last Stop still feels like a fantasy, but with doses of reality woven through the relationship of Jane and August. The novel barrels through life in New York City like the Q train at the crux. The insurmountability that these characters face — August falls in love with an entity trapped interdimensionally on a subway — can easily be paralleled to the feeling of trying to love a city that doesn’t feel like it can love you back. But you always come out on the other side.
One Last Stop
We spoke to Casey about books that feed into the against-all-odds nature of these relationships, but not just the Shakespearean tomes we all attach to this type of story. They spoke about harrowing stories and strong characters that can make you feel something from a book that you may not have thought was possible after the last year: hope.
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