I spend most of my reading time with cutesy, fluffy, romantic comedies. This is not that book.

This book is dense and sad, but also so incredibly wonderful and beautiful. (And don't worry, we get our HEA. This is romance, after all.)

This story covered so much ground. Its a story of grief, and friendship, and family dynamics, and heritage, and racism, and culture, and religion, and sexual discovery and so much love. And somehow it all just WORKS. Often times with this much packed into a single novel the waters can get muddy and the story hard to follow. Rachel Runya Katz managed to deliver something with so much heart and fascinating information that I never minded how much was packed in there.

As a reader, you go on a literal journey with the characters as they go on a southern Jewish history road trip. I loved that this book taught me so much and opened my eyes to a lot all while giving me this lovely, slow burn sapphic romance. And oh, did I cry! Not like full on sobbing, but just a steady trickle of tears and so many times of gasping and grabbing my chest to keep my heart from bursting out of my body.