Sam has had some successes over the years, but his current show gets canceled, leaving him with an expensive Tesla lease and no money. The book takes place years later when the head of the network and one of its adult stars decide to shoot a reboot. Fiona went down in flames, attracting media attention as she self-sabotaged all over Hollywood until the show got canceled mid-season. Sam, charismatic and attractive, left the show to pursue his acting career. The promotional material refers to it as a “whip smart romantic comedy.” Whip smart, I will give it, but romantic comedy? No.īirds of California is a novel about two actors who starred as kids on the television show by that name but went their separate ways as they neared adulthood. She lives in Boston with her family.I had to go back and re-read the blurb for Birds of California about halfway through because this is one of those cases where the marketing and the content don’t match. She studied Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College and received her MFA in Fiction at Lesley University. Katie is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Mississippi Review, and Argestes, as well as many other literary magazines. Her books have been honored by the Junior Library Guild, the Bank Street Children’s Book Committee, and the Kentucky Association of School Librarians, among others, and translated into more than fifteen languages. She is also the co-author, with Candace Bushnell, of Rules for Being a Girl. Katie Cotugno is the New York Times bestselling author of seven messy, complicated feminist YA love stories, as well as the adult novel Birds of California (Harper Perennial, 2022).

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