Grace Porter is 28 years old and has just received her doctorate in astronomy. For the past 11 years, she's been working hard for this degree, and is ready to enter the world of non-stop research and publishing. Except that her first interview goes disastrously and her graduation celebration trip to Las Vegas lands her with the last thing she was planning on: a wife whose name she doesn't remember. No matter what she does, Grace is losing control of her carefully planned life, and is also coming apart at the seams.
For a book that starts with a very fictional premise (how many bad movies start with a drunken Las Vegas wedding?), it handles the complexities of mental health and big life changes very well. There were a few things that didn't entirely make sense to me (like the whole idea of holding sacred vows that you can't remember making to someone you'd never met before; why not just annul?), but on the whole, I enjoyed reading this book. Sometimes it was a bit too real, particularly regarding Grace's anxiety and lack of family communication, but that's just something I'll have to deal with in my own therapy sessions. I'm looking forward to seeing what Rogers comes up with next.
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