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Loading... Yerba Buena: A Novel (edition 2022)by Nina LaCour (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Bittersweet and resplendent in a way that is so thoroughly LaCour! ( ) A book about finding your path and your person, even if those things are never settled and take a long time to feel right, reading it felt like being promised a place in the future where I was happy. In this book love can be flawed and cyclical and overwhelmed by the rest of life, but still sacred. It isn’t foolish to choose love, but nothing is promised. Essentially queer. Characters themselves provide multiple perspectives on their own identities, but the structure and form are themselves queer and resilient. The first chapter felt so easy and light, then it got so dark and sad so fast that it was almost nauseating. The change was hard to navigate, but the book itself resisted the tone (much in the way that humans find resilience after trauma). It carries you to beautiful places, then drops you harshly, but always with the promise that the world itself brings you good things and good people—that the fullness of experience is out there and will wait for you, but will rush in the moment you let it. I want to read it again and again, just to return to a world where time passes like a force of its own (and I can skim through it fast enough to see how it moves among these characters I love so much.) adult fiction, ~25 y.o. bartender/mixologist Sara Foster meets ~25 y.o, Emilie Dubois, forever student looking for purpose. These characters and their assorted acquaintances (Eugene, Spencer, Annie, Colette, Bas, Claire) are so intensely human and their stories are told beautifully. TW: drug abuse, addiction, forced sexual relations no reviews | add a review
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"The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, following two women on a star-crossed journey toward each other When Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery that clings to her. Across the city, Emilie Dubois is in a holding pattern. In her seventh year and fifth major as an undergraduate, she yearns for the beauty and community her Creole grandparents cultivated but is unable to commit. On a whim, she takes a job arranging flowers at the glamorous restaurant Yerba Buena and embarks on an affair with the married owner. When Sara catches sight of Emilie one morning at Yerba Buena, their connection is immediate. But the damage both women carry, and the choices they have made, pulls them apart again and again. When Sara's old life catches up to her, upending everything she thought she wanted just as Emilie has finally gained her own sense of purpose, they must decide if their love is more powerful than their pasts. At once exquisite and expansive, astonishing in its humanity and heart, Yerba Buena is a love story for our time and a propulsive journey through the lives of two women finding their way in the world"-- No library descriptions found. |
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