She’s not sure what she wants, so she flits from major to major in college, and then from job to job. Pushing aside the traumas of her past, she begins to make a life for herself in Los Angeles.Įmilie is an LA native struggling with more nebulous challenges. When her girlfriend dies suddenly, Sara seizes the first opportunity to run. From one seemingly ordinary scene to the next, the relentless momentum of our imperfect, chaotic lives pulses through LaCour’s prose.Īt 16, Sara is desperate to flee her small hometown on Northern California’s Russian River and get far away from her difficult childhood, her drug-dealing father and memories of her dead mother.
It unfolds without any fanfare through a series of intimate and brilliantly observed details about growing up and into yourself. Longtime fans of Nina LaCour’s teen novels will be enchanted by the quietly powerful Yerba Buena, her first book for adult readers.
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