![]() ![]() Chapter by chapter, she switches between perspectives to craft a quiet love story about two young women in Southern California who are figuring out what it means to build a home and to choose to invite someone to share in it. This, too, is how Nina LaCour, who won a Printz Award for her young adult literature, weaves together her first adult novel. As Sara and her brother watched, “their father moved his pencil, faint lines that turned - as if by magic - into places and things they recognized.” Suddenly, there it was: an entire world, familiar yet strange, and within it, a story. Each person in turn would begin to sketch, slowly building the scene. They started with a blank piece of paper. ![]() ![]() When Sara, one of the protagonists in “Yerba Buena,” was a girl, she and her family used to play a game. ![]()
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