Through this pitch-perfect rom-com, Kristina Forest explores the legacy of family and what it means to be young and full of artistic passion.
I Wanna Be Where You Are was her first novel..
Kristina works in children\'s book publishing and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with two huge bookshelves.
By the time she was seventeen, she\'d realized she loved writing more than dancing, so she enrolled at Rowan University and majored in Writing Arts, and then earned an MFA in Creative Writing at the New School.
She started dancing when she was seven and her dream job was to be a backup dancer for Michael Jackson.
About author(s): Kristina Forest was born and raised in Lawnside, New Jersey, a teeny tiny town That was also the first self-governing African American community north of the Mason-Dixon line.
As Evie and Milo conduct a wild manhunt across New York City, romance and adventure abound while Evie makes some surprising discoveries about her grandma--and herself.
With time running out and her comeback on the line, Evie reluctantly enlists the help of the last person to see Gigi before she vanished: Milo Williams, a cute musician Evie isn\'t sure she can trust.
Days before Evie plans to present her grandma with an honorary award in front of Hollywood\'s elite, Gigi does the unthinkable: she disappears.
The only problem? Gigi is a recluse who\'s been out of the limelight for almost twenty years.
Fortunately, Evie knows just the thing to save her floundering career: a public appearance with America\'s most beloved actress--her grandma Gigi, aka the Evelyn Conaway. . .
That is until a close friend\'s betrayal leads to her being blacklisted .
Following in the footsteps of her überfamous grandma, eighteen-year-old Evie Jones is poised to be Hollywood\'s next big star. --Maurene Goo, author of Somewhere Only We Know Now That I\'ve Found You is a YA novel about searching for answers, love, and your eccentric grandma in all the wrong places.
I was utterly charmed from start to finish.
Through this pitch-perfect rom-com, Kristina Forest explores the legacy of family and what it means to be young and full of artistic passion
