Francesca Lia Block
From star YAÂ author Francesca Lia Block comes an adult novel about aÂ student haunted by the disappearance ofÂ her best friend, desperate to find and withstand theÂ truth.,The Elementals,Â is on one level a contemporary story about a young woman, Ariel Silverman, facing the challenges of her first years away at college in Berkeley, California, while her mother battles cancer at home in Los Angeles. But the book takes on deeper, stranger meanings when we contend with Ariel's obsession with the disappearance of her best friend, Jeni, who vanished without a trace a few years before. Her emptiness of spirit seems finally to find some healing with three mysterious, beautiful and seductive young people living in a strange old house in the Berkeley hills. But at what price?
Fiction,Mystery,Young Adult,Fantasy,Magical Realism,Adult,New Adult,Contemporary,Romance,Academic,College
The Elementals