From the award-winning author of We Are Okay comes a beautiful coming-of-age novel where a talented young set designer embarks on a quest to unravel the secrets of a legendary movie star.
"This sensitive, multifaceted novel creates an authentic portrayal of the ups and downs of life."-Kirkus Reviews
"This is summer love for the ages."-Booklist
"This tenderly wrought romance is as much an homage to the power of movies as it is to true love."-The Bulletin
Nothing's more epic than falling in love.
Emi Price has planned a sensational summer. She has her dream job, as a movie design intern, and the key to her brother's wonderful apartment, which he entrusted to her for two months as a graduation gift. She just needs to fulfill his one condition: that something great-something epic-take place there while he's gone. If she can avoid falling back into her on-again-off-again relationship with her ex-girlfriend, all will be perfect.
Then she and her best friend discover a mysterious letter at the estate sale of a Hollywood film icon. They can't resist chasing down the loose ends of his hidden life, and suddenly Emi's plans all feel a bit looser as well . . .
Because the acting legend's decades-old secret is about to stretch Emi's understanding of family, acceptance, and romance.
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Nina LaCour (www.ninalacour.com) is the author of the award-winning Hold Still and widely acclaimed The Disenchantments. Formerly a bookseller and high school English teacher, she now writes and parents full time. A San Francisco Bay Area native, Nina lives with her family in Oakland, California.
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"I want you to do something with the place. Something epic."
After being entrusted with her brother's Los Angeles apartment for the summer as a graduation gift, Emi Price isn't sure how to fulfill his one condition: that something great take place there while he's gone. Emi may be a talented young production designer, already beginning to thrive in the competitive film industry, but she still feels like an average teen, floundering when it comes to romance.
But when she and her best friend, Charlotte, discover a mysterious letter at the estate sale of a Hollywood film legend, Emi must move beyond the walls of her carefully crafted world to chase down the loose ends of a movie icon's hidden life, leading her to uncover a decades' old secret and the potential for something truly epic: love.