Yerba Buena, Nina LaCour
Yerba Buena, Nina LaCour
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Yerba Buena
A Novel

Author: Nina LaCour

Narrator: Julia Whelan

Unabridged: 8 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/31/2022


Synopsis

"Full of sensory details, vivid characters, and moment after moment of gorgeously rendered ordinary life, this audiobook is a queer must-listen." -AudioFile

This program is masterfully narrated by award-winning "Golden Voice" narrator Julia Whelan.

Yerba Buena is 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.

A Most Anticipated Book (Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Vulture, NBC News, Good Housekeeping, Parade, Electric Lit, BookRiot, Bustle, Goodreads, LGBTQ Reads, Autostraddle, Veranda Magazine, The Lesbian Review, and more)

“A love story for our time.”—Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics

"This book is a precious thing."—Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of One Last Stop

When Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, she leaves 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 and embarks on an affair with the married owner.

The morning Emilie and Sara first meet 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 trying to find somewhere, or someone, to call home.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

About Nina LaCour

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cindy on July 04, 2022

I’ve enjoyed Nina LaCour’s previous books and was looking forward to this one for the sapphic sad girl summer vibes. This one started off with the right amount of sad for me; however, as I got halfway through, it felt like the book was disjointed when you look at the characters’ background stories V......more

Goodreads review by emma on November 15, 2023

when i was in high school i took a series of ever-advancing french classes, in attendance in each one a subset of the same people from the one before, and so we grew to have our own sort of dialect of almost-right, bullsh*t-idiom-heavy french. one of our favorite maybe-real expressions was "oh, la v......more

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on June 05, 2023

'I lost nearly everything, and then I built something better.' The key to a good mixed drink is a perfect balance of ingredients to allow them to complement and enhance each other without overpowering. It is the collective amalgamation of flavors to become something greater than the sum of their part......more

Goodreads review by Sunny on March 31, 2022

traumatized lesbians and difficult family dynamics and meet cute type shit over the course of like a decade????? i loooove side by side storylines like this. this story had my heart bursting at the seams......more

Goodreads review by Melanie on March 16, 2022

ARC provided by the publisher via Netgalley “So this was how it felt—to be dealt a blow, to pause, to keep going in spite of it. Not to start over but to continue.” this book follows two women, throughout their teens and twenties, whose paths keep crossing. the star-crossed lovers vibes is......more