The Bride Test, Helen Hoang’s sweet 2019 follow-up to her first novel The Kiss Quotient, which also features an autistic character, is one of a growing number of romances with neurodivergent leads ...

“What. Had. His Mom. Been. Thinking.” Young men the world over have had this thought, but for most it doesn’t occur after their mother, arms laden with litchis, pops out of her Camry and announces ...

For a one-stop counter to all those trend pieces bemoaning the supposed “death” of the rom-com, look to Helen Hoang. Last year, her fizzy debut, The Kiss Quotient — a reverse-ish Pretty Woman about a ...

Hoang’s touching second contemporary romance (after The Kiss Quotient) explores what the American dream might mean to a young, mixed-race Vietnamese woman and the autistic Vietnamese-American man ...