“Should we get a map?” Annie asked, but Sara shook her head. Cool, wet, fresh dirt, even bright days like this one dimming and softening. It struck Sara every time-the way the air changed as she entered the forest. Their fingers touched as Annie took it, and Sara watched Annie press her mouth against its metal rim and drink. Sara unzipped her backpack and pulled out a thermos, unscrewed the lid and sipped. Armstrong Drive dead-ended there-a parking lot, a ranger’s station, the entrance to the woods. The doors folded open, they stepped out to the street. With each curve of the road, the press of one bare shoulder against another, until the bus slowed and stopped. Blur of trees and sky outside, groan of brakes, a current between them. * BingeBooks earns revenue from qualifying purchases as an Amazon Associate as well as from other retail partners. But the damage both women carry, and the choices they have made, will pull them apart again and again.Īt once exquisite and expansive, astonishing in its humanity and heart, Yerba Buena is a love story about two women finding their way in the world.

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 seventh year and fifth major as an undergraduate, she yearns for the beauty and community her Creole grandparents cultivated but is unable to commit. 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.Īcross the city, Emilie Dubois is in a holding pattern. 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. This book is a precious thing.' - Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of One Last Stop ' Yerba Buena is at turns decadent and spare, intimate and elusive, as balanced, fragrant, and masterfully crafted as a fine cocktail in the hands of someone mysterious and beautiful. Finalist for the 2023 AUDIE AWARDS® for Literary Fiction

Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour