Pancake Billy's House of Pancakes

Pancake Billy’s House of Pancakes is the all-night diner where August starts waitressing when she moves to New York. The iconic Brooklyn diner opened in the 1970s and serves as a place of refuge for misfits. When the landlord raises the rent and threatens to close the business, August and her friends start a campaign to save Pancake Billy’s. They want to save the diner from gentrification in order to preserve an establishment that offered them, and countless others, solace and acceptance.

The Q Train

August meets Jane on the Q train at the beginning of the novel and discovers that her subway friend is suspended in time by the electric current running through the third rail. The train facilitates the relationship between August and Jane, despite the disparities in their timelines. Because the track existed in the 1970s, when Jane lived...