Shine Until Tomorrow, Carla Malden
Shine Until Tomorrow, Carla Malden
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Shine Until Tomorrow

Author: Carla Malden

Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer

Unabridged: 6 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/12/2021


Synopsis

Social misfit Mari Caldwell desperately wants to get on with her life. If only she could get there faster—specifically to Yale—and leave behind all the things that make her anxious: driving a car, crossing bridges, her peers, her parents' divorce.

When Mari comes across an old scrapbook of her mother's, she discovers her white collar parents were once blue denim hippies. She ends up fighting with her mother and storming out. She pedals her bicycle into a downpour, swerves to avoid an oncoming jeep, and flies smack into a tree. Mari climbs into an abandoned VW van bearing the ghost of a psychedelic paint job, and passes out.

The next morning, Mari wakes up to the sound of music. But something is wrong; she can't quite figure out what. The skyline, her father's address, the music on the radio. Everything is slightly off. Only when Mari runs headlong into a war protest does Mari begin to realize: it is June, 1967.

In the epicenter of the Summer of Love, Mari makes friends with the would-be rock band, meets the grandfather she never knew, and falls in love. In spite of herself, Mari discovers that love changes everything. It even changes her.

About Carla Malden

Raised in Los Angeles, Carla Malden began her career working in motion picture production and development before becoming a screenwriter.

Along with her father, Academy Award-winning actor Karl Malden, she coauthored his critically acclaimed memoir When Do I Start?

More recently, Malden published Afterimage: A Brokenhearted Memoir of a Charmed Life, her own fiercely personal account of battling the before and surviving the after of losing her first husband to cancer. Afterimage is a journey through grief to gratitude that alerts an entire generation: this is not your mother's widowhood.

Carla's feature writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, highlighting the marvels and foibles of Southern California and Hollywood. She sits on the Board of the Geffen Playhouse. Shine Until Tomorrow is her second novel.

Carla Malden lives in Brentwood with her husband and is ten minutes (depending on traffic) from her daughter.


Reviews

Sometimes a cute contemporary story is just what one needs to get lost into. I enjoy them from time to time in between fantasy reads, especially the short and sweet kind with a cute romance. SHINE UNTIL TOMORROW is definitely that kind of story, but with a twist: we have time travel! The story follow......more

people = 6, pace = 7, originality = 9, world building = 9, enjoyment = 7, relationships = 5, style = 7 (3.5 stars) Thank you to Rare Bird Lit and Carla Malden for providing me with this eARC tin exchange for an honest review (not paid). Please note that this is an unbiased and honest review with my t......more

Actual Rating: 4.5 If I had to describe this book in a few words, I’d use “pleasantly surprising”. I had such a fun time reading this that I was sad when it was over. I might have also shed a tear during the epilogue, but I won’t go into too many details because my aim here is not to spoil. Let me st......more

Goodreads review by Cat

Oh how I have enjoyed this story so much! It is just the perfect story with a time travelling twist. Mari Caldwell is a successful student at school in everything but photography. When her teacher gives her an incomplete and tells her to take a better portrait photo over the summer break, it’s the......more