by Louise Caiola
Release Date: February 2, 2014
The last thing eighteen-year-old Ann Leigh remembers is running from her boyfriend in a thick Nebraska cornfield. This morning she’s staring down a cool Italian sunrise, an entire continent from the life she once knew. The events of the eighteen months in between have inexplicably gone missing from her memory.
All at once she’s living with Tommy, an attractive, young foreigner asking for her continued love. Though he’s vaguely familiar, she recalls a boy named Shane in America who she reluctantly agreed to marry. Juggling a new world while her old one is still M.I.A is difficult enough without the terrifying movie scenes spinning a dizzy loop in her mind: glimpses of a devastating house fire, a romance gone wrong, an unplanned pregnancy, and a fractured family – each claiming to be part of who she once was – a girl and a past somehow discarded.
Ann Leigh must collect the pieces of herself to become whole again, but she doesn’t know who to trust especially when Tommy’s lies become too obvious to ignore. And above all, her heart aches to discover what became of the child she may or may not have given birth to.
The Making of Nebraska Brown tells the story of one girl’s coming apart from the inside and the great lengths she’ll go to reclaim herself and find her way home.
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Guest Post: Casting the Making of
Nebraska Brown
I am NOT a frustrated
screen-writer. I haven’t ever aspired to create a Hollywood script or a
Broadway play. But I would be lying if I said there wasn’t a bit of
movie-making going on behind the scenes when I write my novels. In fact, for
the most part, when I’m plotting and pacing, my mind visits each scene as
though it were part of some film or TV show. I try to imagine what I would want
to “see” happen next if I were watching this story come to life before my eyes.
Along with that, I also envision who I would like to see fill the role of the
characters that I meet in my work.
It’s a fantasy. Come on.
Everybody needs at least ONE, right?
The Making of Nebraska Brown –
The Movie.
After they’ve revived me (because
of course, I’ve fainted) I am asked who I might like to cast in the lead roles.
My actors of choice. Well, gee, I’ve never even…oh, like hell. I have. You know
and I know it. So here goes:
Ann Leigh – Shailene Woodley (I
had her in mind long before Divergent so I ought to get first dibs.) Second Choice
– Hailee Steinfeld.
Tommy – Joe Jonas. Period. End of
discussion.
Shane – Jason Dolley. The perfect
Shane.
Tessa – Isabel Lucas
Renata – Emma Stone
Sissy – Saoirse Ronan
I would enjoy hearing who you
guys think would play these roles! Lay it on me.
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Sounds intriguing!
ReplyDeleteI know most of those actors, but not all.