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 ...

Her encore, The Bride Test, is even better. Hoang’s books are tenderly personal. The author, diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in 2016, put an autistic heroine at the center of Kiss; a minor ...

“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 ...

In search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this week’s hottest new book releases. 1. “The Bride Test,” by Helen Hoang (Berkley, fiction, on sale ...

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 ...