GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK β’Β A woman whoβs used to going solo discovers that thereβs one relationship she canβt run away from in this βhilarious, electricβ (The New York Times) novel, a probing examination of the complexities of family, queerness, race, and community
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNERβ’ ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe, Autostraddle, Shondaland β’ βAΒ new kind of love story, the best kind.ββAshley C. Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Somebodyβs Daughter
When she was twenty-six and broke, Skye didnβt think twice before selling her eggs and happily pocketing the cash. Now approaching forty, Skye still moves through life entirelyβand unrepentantlyβon her own terms, living out of a suitcase and avoiding all manner of serious relationships. Maybe her junior high classmates werenβt wrong when they voted her βMost Likely to Be Singleβ instead of βMost Ride-or-Die Homie,β but at least sheβs always been free to do as she pleases.
Then a twelve-year-old girl tracks Skye down during one of her brief visits to her hometown of Philadelphia and informs Skye that sheβs βher egg.β Skyeβs life is thrown into sharp relief and she decides that it might be time to actually try to have a meaningful relationship with another human being. Spoiler alert: Itβs not easy.
Things get even more complicated when Skye realizes that the woman she tried and failed to pick up the other day is the girlβs aunt, and now itβs awkward. All the while, her brother is trying to get in touch, her mother is being bewilderingly kind, and the West Philly pool halls and hoagie shops of her youth have been replaced by hipster cafΓ©s.
With its endearingly prickly narrator and a cast of characters willing to both challenge her and catch her when she falls, this novel is a clever, moving portrait of a woman and the relationships she thought she could live without.