It is a novel full of heartbreak and hope, food and flowers, complication and compromise, love and loss and lessons learned the hard way. “ Yerba Buena tells two lovely, tangled, gorgeously-detailed coming-of-age stories. But especially love.” -Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of One Two Three and This Is How It Always Is
This is Nina LaCour’s best work yet.” -Gayle Forman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of If I Stay and We Are Inevitable “ Yerba Buena is not just a book to read it’s a story to revel in, so full is it of sensual pleasures-food and flowers, cocktails and home decor-all of it enveloping a sexy, magnetic and unputdownable love story of two young women fighting their way past family demons and toward each other. 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.Īt 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.Ī Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books. But the damage both women carry, and the choices they have made, pulls them apart again and again. When Sara catches sight of Emilie one morning at Yerba Buena, their connection is immediate. On a whim, she takes a job arranging flowers at the glamorous restaurant Yerba Buena and embarks on an affair with the married owner. In her sixth year and fifth major as an undergraduate, she yearns for the beauty and community her Creole grandparents cultivated but is unable to commit. Across the city, Emilie Dubois is in a holding pattern. 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. 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. 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
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