LaCour never abandoned the tale - she would pull out her folder and through the pages she had written in between projects - but it wasn’t until the COVID-19 pandemic and its subsequent stay-at-home order hit that she turned her energy towards finishing what she had begun years earlier. More: Want stories on books, authors and bestsellers? Get the free Book Pages newsletter In the meantime, the San Francisco-based LaCour would write “Hold Still,” her award-winning debut, and a succession of YA books.
“I kept thinking about this character and writing scenes and trying to figure her out.”īut the story of Sara, as well as that of Emilie, the two young women at the center of LaCour’s latest novel, “Yerba Buena,” would have to wait. “I knew that she had a brother that she had abandoned, but I didn’t know why yet,” says LaCour from her San Francisco office. In a flash of inspiration, she envisioned Sara, a character whose tragic past would only slowly reveal itself to the writer. Author Nina LaCour began work on her first novel when she was still in college.
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