28 year old Grace just completed her PhD in astronomy and is looking towards her future in STEM, where her status as a biracial, gay woman means she is going to have to work three times as hard to gain respect as her white, male, heterosexual peers...and so she drunkenly marries a woman she doesn’t know in Vegas. This book divides it’s time between being a rom-com and being an examination of women’s trauma. When it’s being cute, it is very, very cute, but it truly shines when it looks at the hoops marginalized identities, particularly women of colour, have to jump through against the establishment of primarily straight male dominated fields, and the psychological toll that can take, a toll we often overlook.
