August compares herself to Veronica Mars and Gilmore Girls, both nostalgic '90s TV shows with recent reboots that haven't aged as well as fans might like. McQuiston's knowledge of pop culture and storytelling tropes helped her get into the mindset of a character who was difficult to figure out at first. And is it horrible and am I a failure because I don't know where this is going? That's a lot of what August is dealing with."īut in other ways, McQuiston and August couldn't be more different - "She's so reserved and cautious and prickly and withdrawn, and I'm the opposite of all those things. "I'm waiting tables and I live with too many people, and I don't know where this is going.
"More than anything, what's most personal about this book is that a lot of what I was writing about is something that I had really experienced in my early 20s, which was 'Who the hell am I? What am I doing with my life?'" she said. In the end, it seemed inevitable that she would move there. The journey of falling in love with New York, "this shitty, smelly, overpriced, nightmare city," is especially vivid she traveled there multiple times while writing the book and spent days riding the Q train from one end to the other, taking notes and doing research. It's easy to look for aspects of McQuiston's own experience in August's story - both of them grew up in southern Louisiana, both eventually moved to New York, and there's even a striking resemblance between McQuiston's dog Pepper and a dog named Noodles in the book. I feel like I accidentally wrote a quarantine book before I had any idea quarantine would happen." "My best friend jokes all the time that I'm Nostradamus, because my books have this way of somehow predicting things. "I promise, I wrote that probably in 2019," McQuiston laughed. At one point, Jane admits to August that being locked away from the world outside is wearing her down. The character turned out to be more relatable than McQuiston ever expected when she was writing the first draft several years ago.
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