
The story changes back and forth between Sara and Emilie’s stories and it was confusing at first, especially as an audiobook, to realize these were two separate people who never meet until they are adults later in the story. The story continues to circle back to yerba buena, which is an herb commonly found.

In Yerba Buena, we learn about Sara who runs away from home at sixteen and has to make some difficult choices to get by, and about Emilie, a girl unsure of her place in the world and with her community. Thank you to Libro.fm for the advanced listening copy! All opinions are my own.

This is a novel that I can’t stop thinking about and it had some really intense moments. It’s about how romance and love can be messy and is imperfect.

Yerba Buena is an adult novel about two women’s separate lives and how they come together as adults.
