Some books feel destined to be optioned. Take journalist and author Rose Dommu’s debut novel, Best Woman —about Julia, a bisexual trans woman who goes home to Florida from New York to ride out her brother’s wedding (and try to capture her intimidatingly cool high-school crush’s heart)—which manages to feel deeply cinematic without ever sacrificing laughs or hewing to the audience’s expectations. (After all, who says a leading lady can’t sow a little pre-nuptial tumult in the estimable company of hot people of all genders?)

This week, Vogue spoke to Dommu about our current rom-com flop culture, writing a heroine who rejects the notion of “happily ever after,” the interconnected beauty and pain of queer and trans life in Florida, and her persuasive theory that “weddings are gender.”

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