Debuting on the New York stage, Zara is unprepared -- for Eli, the girl who makes the world glow; for Leopold, the director who wants...

Debuting on the New York stage, Zara is unprepared -- for Eli, the girl who makes the world glow; for Leopold, the director who wants perfection; or for death in the theater.

Zara Evans has come to the Aurelia Theater, home to the visionary director Leopold Henneman, to play her dream role in Echo and Ariston, the Greek tragedy that taught her everything she knows about love. When the director asks Zara to promise that she will have no outside commitments, no distractions, it's easy to say yes. But it's hard not to be distracted when there's a death at the theater -- and then another -- especially when Zara doesn't know if they're accidents, or murder, or a curse that always comes in threes. It's hard not to be distracted when assistant lighting director Eli Vasquez, a girl made of tattoos and abrupt laughs and every form of light, looks at Zara. It's hard not to fall in love. In heart-achingly beautiful prose, Amy Rose Capetta has spun a mystery and a love story into an impossible, inevitable whole -- and cast lantern light on two young women, finding each other on a stage set for tragedy.

Author: A. R. Capetta
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 10/10/2017
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.90w x 1.25d
ISBN: 9780763691646
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2017
School Library Journal 09/01/2017
Foreword 08/26/2017
Publishers Weekly 09/04/2017
Booklist 09/15/2017 pg. 61
Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2017 - Recommended - Readable
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2017
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2018 - Recommended, Satisfactory

About the Author
A. R. Capetta, who previously published under the name Amy Rose Capetta, is the author of The Lost Coast. After studying theater at the Stella Adler Studio as a teenager and spending four years in a Shakespeare troupe, they went on to get a master of fine arts in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. A. R. Capetta lives in a small town in the mountains with their family.