In Search of Us, Ava Dellaira
In Search of Us, Ava Dellaira
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In Search of Us

Author: Ava Dellaira

Narrator: Adenrele Ojo

Unabridged: 11 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/06/2018

Synopsis

Ava Dellaira's In Search of Us is a sweeping multi-generational love story.To seventeen-year-old Angie, who is mixed-race, Marilyn is her hardworking, devoted white single mother. But Marilyn was once young, too. When Marilyn was seventeen, she fell in love with Angie's father, James, who was African-American. But Angie's never met him, and Marilyn has always told her he died before she was born. When Angie discovers evidence of an uncle she's never met she starts to wonder: What if her dad is still alive, too? So she sets off on a journey to find him, hitching a ride to LA from her home in New Mexico with her ex-boyfriend, Sam. Along the way, she uncovers some hard truths about herself, her mother, and what truly happened to her father."A rare and special book. Part mother-daughter love story, part road trip journey, part compelling mystery, and one hundred percent beautiful, spellbinding tearjerker. I’m in love with every page." ―Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places and Holding Up the Universe"A masterful work of fiction. Exploring race and mother and daughter relationships, this novel is also one of the most tender and authentic takes on first love that I have ever read." ―Jennifer Mathieu, author of Moxie

About Ava Dellaira

Ava Dellaira is the author of Love Letters to the Dead, which was sold in 24 foreign territories and has been optioned for film. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. She grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago. She is an associate producer of Stephen Chbosky's feature film adaptation of his bestselling novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower. She currently lives in Santa Monica.

Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on July 29, 2021

This is my Books I've Owned For So Long I Assume I Probably Will Never Read It poster child. So the fact that I did, in fact, finish it, and didn't even hate it, makes me feel like I could take on death itself. I added this in 2017, it came out in 2018, it sat on my shelves for three-plus years, and......more

Goodreads review by Olivia-Savannah on January 16, 2020

This was quite a lovely, gentle read with an emotional punch to it too. I had some highs and lows with this one, but overall I liked it! I was a bit unsure of the changing perspectives. I didn’t like the immediate change we had at the beginning because I didn’t care about Angie enough yet… but at the......more

Goodreads review by Whispering on January 29, 2020

Book Reviewed on www.whisperingstories.com In Search of Us is the story of Marilyn and Angie told from two points of view and two different timelines. We first meet seventeen-year-old Angie as she sets out on a road trip to Los Angeles after she discovers that her mum has been lying to her for years......more

Goodreads review by Thamy on March 03, 2018

I wasn't ready for something so beautiful. Told in two timelines, we follow Marilyn's romance with her neighbor, who is a black boy, while she struggles to follow her mother's dream and bear with her uncle's addiction to gambling. And we also follow her daughter's search for her father eighteen years......more

Goodreads review by Stacey on June 10, 2020

This is Ava Dellaira's second novel and it did not disappoint. It was not at all what I was expecting but was pleasantly surprised at the racial injustice message worked into the storyline...very pertinent to today's atmosphere. I found this novel very comforting at times. It was an easy read for ho......more

Quotes

"Dellaira’s debut novel, Love Letters to the Dead, was good; her second, which tells two connected tales set 18 years apart, is spectacular. Readers will be left sobbing, both for the characters they’ve come to love and for the state of the country―Dellaira draws on persistent racial divides to craft an ending that is surprising yet inevitable, heartbreaking, and hopeful." ―Publishers Weekly starred review"A coming-of-age novel about all kinds of love, this is a realistic look into how teens’ lives intertwine with their parents’ pasts. Readers who enjoyed Dellaira’s Love Letters to the Dead or Emery Lord’s When We Collided will fall in love with this title."―School Library Journal"...[A] compelling intergenerational tale. Achingly vibrant." ―Kirkus

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