The Library AF book group will be meeting IN PERSON for the rest of 2025. Please find us at the Sacramento LGBT Center in the Lambda Founder's Room on the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Our selection for June is the adult debut of prolific, award-winning YA author Nina LaCour (whose novel We Are Okay won the Printz Award in 2018 and left me with a severe book hangover). I'm excited to pick this one up and listen to the incomparable Julia Whelan as narrator.
“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. 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. 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. On a whim, she takes a job arranging flowers at the glamorous restaurant Yerba Buena and embarks on an affair with the married owner.
When Sara catches sight of Emilie one morning 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 finding their way in the world."
Synopsis from Goodreads
