The Kiss Quotient
by Helen Hoang
"She approaches kissing like calculus — so she hires a professional tutor."
Econometrician Stella Lane is brilliant with algorithms and baffled by intimacy, so she hires escort Michael Phan for lessons. The syllabus does not survive contact with actual feelings. A steamy, tender own-voices romance with an autistic heroine written from lived experience.
Worth knowing
Hoang was diagnosed autistic while writing it; the novel became a phenomenon and has been optioned for film.
