The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee

Illinois connection!

Every summer, Leda's family forced her to come on their annual visit "home" to Podunk, middle-of-nowhere Illinois. ... If she'd done what they did-- moved from Danville to New York as newlyweds... p11

LOL

It sucked sometimes, being best friends with the girl too flawless to come from nature. Leda, on the other hand, probably came from a night of tequila shots on her parents' anniversary. p12

World-building

Rylin was a little impressed to find it full of illegal old paper greenbacks, which still circulated wildly through the black markets since, unlike nanodollars, they were untraceable. p113

Buy a pack of grapefruit M&M's... p125

Cord had once asked why her job even existed, why they didn't just have bots at each monorail stop like they did at upper-floor lift stations. "Because I'm cheaper than a bot," she told him, which was true. p184

The three hour train ride ... [from New York to Paris] p187

Two hours later, stuffed with whipped pepper potatoes and an unbelievable animal-sourced steak-- not the lab-grown stuff, but a real steak from a real cow that had lived and eaten grass and died... p192

Everything was so much faster on the upper floors, where robots scanned groceries and charged for them via contact-link in a matter of seconds, then whisked them away to be delivered by drone. But she was learning that nothing down here was automated or efficient. p229

But safety belts hadn't saved the millions of people who died in car accidents every year, before driver-run cars were made illegal. p343

???

She leaned back on her heels, thinking about how strange the world was, that both she and Cord had lost their parents. Yet while she was working for an hourly wage just to keep her family together, with barely any time to properly grieve her mom; Cord had been given custom-made drugs to help with his grief. p114

Maybe that's all that praying was, she thought, just wishing good outcomes on other people. p233

Description

He was somehow earnest without being serious, confident without being an asshole. p322

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