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Welcome to LA? Nineties Hollywood gets an Italian makeover in this poignant and ruefully funny coming-of-age book featuring a teenage gal who's on shaky ground - in more ways than one. Mere weeks following the 1992 riots that laid waste material to LA, Eugenia, an average 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 ask for assistance as her parents struggle to make it big, Hollywood fashion, she must navigate her huge new general public high school, filled with Crips and Bloods and Persian gang users, and a car-based environment of 99-cent stores and obscure fast-food franchises and all-night raves. She forges friendships with Henry, who works his mother's movie memorabilia store, and the bewitching Deva, who presents her to the alternative cultural universe that is Topanga Canyon. And then the 1994 earthquake stones the foundations not only of Eugenia's home but of the future she'd been imagining for herself.
