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Published May 2014
320 pages
Genre: Literary Fiction
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A wunderkind young set designer, Emi has already started to find her way in the competitive Hollywood film world.
Emi is a film buff and a true romantic, but her real-life relationships are a mess. She has desperately gone back to the same girl too many times to mention. But then a mysterious letter from a silver screen legend leads Emi to Ava. Ava is unlike anyone Emi has ever met. She has a tumultuous, not-so-glamorous past, and lives an unconventional life. She's enigmatic. She's beautiful. And she is about to expand Emi's understanding of family, acceptance, and true romance.
"Starred Review. [U]nderneath the privilege surges real pain, longing, and feeling in a way that makes it easy to imagine this novel as a film. Ages 14 & up." - Publishers Weekly
"Though the mystery may feel obvious, the sensitive, multifaceted novel creates an authentic portrayal of the ups and downs of life in the movie-production world - and of the coming-of-age of Emi as a talented artist whose skills and confidence in her own ability and instincts grow through the story. An absorbing Hollywood read." - Kirkus
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Nina LaCour was born in Oakland, California, received her undergraduate degree from San Francisco State University, and returned to Oakland to receive an MFA in Creative Writing at Mills College. Her graduate thesis became her first novel, Hold Still, which received a William C. Morris honor from the American Library Association. Her other novels include, The Disenchantments, Everything Leads to You, and the Michael L. Printz Award-winner We Are Okay. She is also the coauthor, with David Levithan, of You Know Me Well.
Still firmly rooted in the Bay Area, Nina loves cooking, gardening, and daytripping through the ever-inspiring regions of Northern California with her wife and their daughter.
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