03727cam a2200913 4500 527977308 TxAuBib 20211107120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385542289 0385542283 B01LWZTVBX Amazon 6303a61f-c86e-4ebe-a50d-7250c0e56d9d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 549831 549831 549831 3071226 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Barzini, Chiara,. Things That Happened Before the Earthquake [Libby] : A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017. family. relationships. dysfunctional family. Friendship. literary fiction. road trip. immigrant. Historical. family life. runaways. romance. Urban Fiction. Los Angeles. culture. italian. Writing. dance. Fiction. crime. novels. Film. Coming of age. Identity. la. feminist. mystery. Drama. art. feminism. americana. Hollywood. Urban. Music. San Fernando Valley. Chick Lit. literature. social. fiction books. teenager. drugs. teenage girl. realistic fiction. new kid in school. topanga canyon. immigrant kids. realistic fiction books. books fiction. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2017kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1271kB. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<b>Welcome to LA? Nineties' Hollywood gets an Italian makeover in this poignant and ruefully funny coming-of-age novel featuring a teenage girl who's on shaky ground—in more ways than one.</b><br /> <br /> Mere weeks after the 1992 riots that laid waste to Los Angeles, Eugenia, a typical Italian teenager, is rudely yanked from her privileged Roman milieu by her hippie-ish filmmaker parents and transplanted to the strange suburban world of the San Fernando Valley. With only the Virgin Mary to call on for guidance as her parents struggle to make it big, Hollywood fashion, she must navigate her huge new public high school, complete with Crips and Bloods and Persian gang members, and a car-based environment of 99-cent stores and obscure fast-food franchises and all-night raves. She forges friendships with Henry, who runs his mother's movie memorabilia store, and the bewitching Deva, who introduces her to the alternate cultural universe that is Topanga Canyon. And then the 1994... Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6303a61f-c86e-4ebe-a50d-7250c0e56d9d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6303a61f-c86e-4ebe-a50d-7250c0e56d9d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6303a61f-c86e-4ebe-a50d-7250c0e56d9d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)