invoked Angst? What Angst?: In-universe, August notes that Jane had adjusted well to being flung forty-five years out of her time, and bound to the Q Train indefinitely.The Ageless: Jane hasn't aged a day since she was first bound to the Q Train.It's up to August and her gaggle of new friends to figure out what's wrong with Jane, how she got into this pickle, and, if possible, free her from this curse.Īnd so begins One Last Stop, a Queer Romance novel written by Casey McQuiston of Red, White & Royal Blue fame, published in 2021. However, there is one significant bright spot in her new life: Jane Su, a cool, confident girl who she meets on the Q Train on her subway commute, with whom August is instantly smitten.īut there's this peculiar trait about Jane that August discovers by chance: she's time-displaced from The '70s, bound to the subway and unable to get off of it, not having aged at all for the past forty-five years, and remembering nothing of her former life. She's determined to leave her checkered past behind and withdraw into mawkish cynicism, and the Big Apple seems like just the place to do it.

She's recently moved into a run-down New York City apartment with a couple of oddball roommates, juggling waiting tables at an old diner with what little of her school life that she bothers to tend to. 'That's the way it happens on the subway-you lock eyes with someone, you imagine a life from one stop to the next, and you go back to your day as if the person you loved in between doesn't exist anywhere but on that train.'Īugust Landry leads an unhappy life.

August and jane one last stop