She decides to abandon her life plan to travel to New York to meet Yuki, a waitress and late-night radio storyteller. Even though Grace is surrounded by a loving group of friends and roommates, she still feels alone and untethered. Back home in Portland, Ore., Grace reckons with her reckless behavior and hazy “champagne-pink” memories while trying to continue living up to her strict, financially supportive military father’s expectations as she pursues a career in a field dominated by white men. Grace Porter is spending a weekend in Las Vegas with her two friends to celebrate completing her doctorate in astronomy, when she wakes up to find a note from Yuki Yamamoto, a woman she’d hooked up with-and gotten married to-the night before. In Rogers’s frothy debut, a high-achieving 20-something Black woman blows up her life.
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