I loved every single second of this book. Not only is it easy to root for August, a girl who is figuring out who she is and what she wants in real time, but every single other character is easy to root for too, from the mysterious Jane (who may or may not be bending the rules of time and space) to the magnificent drag queen neighbor across the hall, Annie Depressant and the kooky cast of roommate and co workers who fill up August’s life almost instantly upon her arrival in NYC. Every single character in this novel is fully fleshed out. They each have their own backstory and motivations, all of which click together to create such a beautifully ground sense of reality even in a story which has a fair bit of magic built in (see the aforementioned bending of time and space). I just adored this book—it made me laugh and cry many times over, hot as hell (never have I thought I would find the idea of sex on the subway sexy, but here we are), and really celebrated the complicated, wonderful way that queer people continue to build and create community and family for themselves. Utterly delightful.