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Afraid to risk new friendships and unable to continue her own artistic endeavors, Caitlin finds herself in a state of paralysis, wrestling with questions that may remain unanswered. Caitlin begins her junior year in high school bitter and stunned over the recent suicide of her best friend Ingrid, a talented photographer and artist. Retrieved December 24, 2022.LaCour makes an impressive debut with an emotionally charged young adult novel about friendship and loss. "Love and Trauma in the Wilds of California". " 'Yerba Buena' Review: Understated, Bittersweet, Brilliant".

"Nina LaCour On 'Yerba Buena,' Writing Queer Love Stories, & YA Vs.

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You Know Me Well, with David Levithan (2016).

The New York Times reviewed the book and called it a "sensory feast". The novel has "themes of drug and sexual abuse, death, abandonment, and purposelessness" but is ultimately the story of "two star-crossed young women navigating trauma, family, and romance". Yerba Buena is LaCour's first book of adult fiction.

YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults (2021).

YALSA's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults selection (2021).

The book received various accolades, including the following: The New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, Buzzfeed, and Kirkus named it one of the best young adult books of the year. Watch Over Me is a young adult novel published September 15, 2020, by Dutton Children's Books. Main article: Watch Over Me (LaCour novel) LaCour currently lives in San Francisco with her wife and daughter. Īt present, LaCour teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Hamline University. Following graduation, she taught at Berkeley City College and Maybeck High School before taking a few years off to care for her daughter. Also while there, LaCour began teaching English composition to undergraduate students.

LaCour's first novel, Hold Still, was the result of her master's thesis while at Mills College. She received her bachelor's degree from San Francisco State University and a master of fine arts in creative writing from Mills College. She attended Campolindo High School and graduated in 2000. Her family instilled in her an appreciation for the arts and education: "her grandmother taught china painting classes her father was a teacher and then school principal and her mother taught high school art." LaCour was born in 1983 in and raised in the San Francisco Bay area.

Her novel We Are Okay won the Printz Award in 2017. Nina LaCour is an American author, primarily known for writing young adult literature with queer, romantic story lines.