Just like Emi designs sets for fictional characters, it’s the small details and the objects that fill their lives that make LaCour’s characters feel like actual people. The writing is beautiful and atmospheric, and LaCour’s eye for detail (shown through Emi’s passion for set design) is unparalleled. We Are Okay is poetic in its sadness and its brevity ELtY is more immersive but just as lovely, and while it deals with some heavy topics, it’s a much lighter read. I really liked We Are Okay, but Everything Leads to You is so much my book, I don’t know how I lived my whole life without it. I’m going to have to read everything Nina LaCour ever wrote. Love, family, friendship, and romance come together in a soft summer romance about acceptance and how life isn’t always quite like the movies. Emi can’t help the attraction to her, but she’s recently gotten out of another relationship (for the fourth or fifth time), and Ava’s life is far from perfect. Emi and her best friend, Charlotte, decide to try to deliver the letter, and the mystery leads them to an enigmatic girl named Ava. When she visits an estate sale for a famous but reclusive old Hollywood actor, she discovers a letter he’d written to a mysterious woman from his past. Her older brother is leaving his apartment to her for the summer with only one caveat: do something epic with the place.

They fill us with longing.”Ībout: It’s shortly after graduation, and Emi is already an intern in set design on a major Hollywood film. They allow us to escape and to dream and to gaze into eyes that are impossibly beautiful and huge. They speak to our desires, which are never small. “We love films because they make us feel something.

Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour