Everything Leads to You
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4.0 • 11 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At age 18, Emi Price is making big strides toward a career in production design, with a rent-free Los Angeles apartment and an enviable and promising internship on a movie set. When Emi and her best friend Charlotte discover a letter written by a recently deceased film icon (think Clint Eastwood), it leads them to his unknown granddaughter, Ava. Emi is smitten, and as her life and career take ever more fortunate turns, her recently broken heart begins to heal with the hope of new love with Ava. LaCour (The Disenchantments) can write her way around a movie set (and L.A., too), and her descriptions of Emi's work raise Emi's character to another level and add fascinating depth to this story. Between Ava's troubled ing nue status, her claim to Hollywood royalty, and the way several characters are both charmed by unexpected fortune and grayed by tragedy, the story can feel like a Hollywood fairy tale. But underneath the privilege surges real pain, longing, and feeling in a way that makes it easy to imagine this novel as a film. Ages 14 up.
