Yerba Buena: A Novel
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Nina LaCour. (2022). Yerba Buena: A Novel. Flatiron Books.

Nina LaCour. 2022. Yerba Buena: A Novel. Flatiron Books.

Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena: A Novel. Flatiron Books, 2022.

Nina LaCour. Yerba Buena: A Novel. Flatiron Books, 2022.

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   • bioText: NINA LACOUR is the Michael L. Printz award-winning and nationally bestselling author of Watch Over Me, We Are Okay, Hold Still, and Everything Leads to You. She hosts the podcast Keeping a Notebook and teaches for Hamline University's MFA in writing for Children and Young Adults program. A former indie bookseller and high school English teacher, she lives with her family in San Francisco.
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FROM BESTSELLING AND PRINTZ-AWARD WINNING AUTHOR NINA LACOUR, PERFECT FOR READERS OF WRITERS AND LOVERS
"A study of complex, modern love...Expertly illuminates the trauma that Sara and Emilie are both wrestling with, as well as their hope and healing...Lingers like a perfectly mixed cocktail." —San Francisco Chronicle

"A Carol for our times." —Harper's Bazaar
Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, leaving behind 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, yearning for the beauty and community her Creole grandparents cultivated but unable to commit. On a whim, she takes a job arranging flowers at the glamorous restaurant Yerba Buena.
The morning Emilie and Sara first meet at Yerba Buena, their connection is immediate. But soon 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. Will their love be more powerful than their pasts?
At once exquisite and expansive, astonishing in its humanity and heart, Yerba Buena is a testament to the healing qualities of a shared meal, a perfectly crafted drink, a space we claim for ourselves. Nina LaCour's adult debut novel is a love story for our time.
"Trailblazing...One of my personal favorite authors." —Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of One Last Stop

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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: "LaCour writes with beauty and clarity about how a relationship is not a substitute for the characters' mutual need to love themselves."
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   • source: Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics
   • content: "Nina LaCour's Yerba Buena is a love story for our time. I so admired its truth and candor, the lilting prose and the two compelling protagonists, Sara and Emilie, whose lives weave, break and bend towards each other until the novel's moving and deeply satisfying conclusion. Yerba Buena is an absolute joy to read."
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   • source: Julia Turshen, New York Times bestselling author of Simply Julia and more cookbooks
   • content: "Nina LaCour's writing is so evocative that it's hard to put down (I read Yerba Buena in one day). The attention to detail allows you to be transported--you can just about taste the food, be in the rooms, and even feel the feelings the characters are experiencing."
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   • source: Charlotte McConaghy, New York Times bestselling author of Once There Were Wolves and Migrations
   • content: "Tactile, tender and intimate, Yerba Buena is a gorgeous, sensory exploration of life's richest moments. Led by two soulful and complex women, it is a joy to read."
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   • source: Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of One Two Three and This Is How It Always Is
   • content: "Yerba Buena tells two lovely, tangled, gorgeously-detailed coming-of-age stories. It is a novel full of heartbreak and hope, food and flowers, complication and compromise, love and loss and lessons learned the hard way. But especially love."
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     September 1, 2021
     

     Sara Foster flees home at age 16 and eventually ends up as a popular (if slightly mysterious) bartender at the Los Angeles restaurant Yerba Buena. When directionless undergraduate Emilie Dubois takes a job arranging flowers at the restaurant, the connection between her and Sara sizzles. But can love conquer all, including the troublesome past? A first adult novel from Printz Award-winning YA author LaCour; with a 150,000-copy first printing.

     Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     October 25, 2021
     In LaCour’s solid adult debut (after the YA novel Watch Over Me), two Los Angles women navigate the uncertainties of their 20s and their complicated pasts. Sara Foster ran away from home at 16 after her girlfriend died under mysterious circumstances that may have involved Sara’s family. Now she’s a bartender whose signature cocktails are in high demand at the popular restaurant Yerba Buena. Emilie Dubois, who is part Creole, spent her early life as the “steady daughter” and “good girl,” but with a sister in and out of rehab, her parents getting divorced, and her grandmother dying, she begins to search for her authentic self rather than continue passing as white and straight. After Emilie takes a job designing flowers at Yerba Buena, she embarks on an affair with the married owner, Jacob Lowell, while Sara occasionally takes home women from the bar. Though the chemistry is palpable between Emilie and Sara, the story turns out to be less about a love affair than what the women each need for themselves. Sometimes the alternating points of view between Sara and Emilie feel interchangeable, but LaCour writes with beauty and clarity about how a relationship is not a substitute for the characters’ mutual need to love themselves. This doesn’t break new ground, but it gets the job done.

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     December 15, 2021
     Their lives upended by drugs, two young women struggle to find love--and their own true selves--as they navigate the complexities of adulthood. Having lost her mother and with her father shirking his parental duties most of the time, teenage Sara Foster feels a deep obligation to care for her younger brother, Spencer. But in the wake of yet another traumatic drug-related tragedy that hits uncomfortably close, Sara runs away to Los Angeles in hopes of rebooting her life. On a parallel track, Emilie Dubois too has witnessed the devastation of drugs up close, as her sister, Colette, struggles to stay clean. Emilie and Sara have their respective burdens to bear--and baggage to unpack--when they meet at Yerba Buena, a high-end LA restaurant. They cannot deny the chemistry they share, but the past has a way of rearing its ugly head when least expected. Both Sara and Emilie meet and diverge again, trying to understand the contours of their lives and if they have room for each other in the vast messiness. Yerba Buena, the mintlike herb with healing properties, is a recurring motif in the novel. "It helps you fall out of love. It tells your future, so you can bear more easily the days in between. Whatever you need it to. It's all about your intentions," a character says of the herb's gifts. One occasionally wishes LaCour subscribed more to the "show rather than tell" philosophy, as the narrative rather clinically focuses on unfolding events. There are weighty themes here about a variety of societal challenges, drugs being just one of them, but they are underexplored and remain too understated. Nevertheless, the rawness of Sara's and Emilie's struggles come through, making for a heartfelt story. A brisk, plot-driven, and entertaining novel.

     COPYRIGHT(2021) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     Starred review from December 1, 2021
     Sara is 14 and in love with the woods and her girlfriend, Annie. When Annie disappears and her body is pulled from the river, Sara can't face living in her small town anymore. To get the money to leave, she partners up with a young drifter, and they sell their bodies to a despicable man. We jump forward in time to Emilie, who works as a flower arranger in Los Angeles. She becomes caught up in a toxic affair with a client, the owner of the restaurant where Sara is now designing cocktails. Once Emilie finds the courage to leave, both women must let go of their pasts to embrace the healing that awaits them when they finally let themselves fall in love. Though its characters are faced with incredible trauma and adversity, Printz Award-winner LaCour's adult debut is lyrical and ultimately hopeful. Yerba buena--the "good herb," which is also the name of the restaurant where Sara and Emilie meet--carries the reader through the pain and symbolizes a better future. Emilie's journey of becoming an interior decorator after leaving her flower-arranging job will also appeal to new adults who may be unsure of their life paths.

     COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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"A study of complex, modern love...Expertly illuminates the trauma that Sara and Emilie are both wrestling with, as well as their hope and healing...Lingers like a perfectly mixed cocktail." —San Francisco Chronicle

"A Carol for our times." —Harper's Bazaar
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