The story of Ellie picks up in 1942, 8 years after book #2 ended. In the intervening years she has gotten married, become widowed, adopted a son and has a stepson. She also embarked on a career as an artist. She is still living in New York. But then her 16 year old stepson runs away from school and runs to Hollywood to pursue a career as an actor. Ellie originally goes out after him to bring him home but ends up staying and building a new life for herself in California. This book takes place in 1942 and 1943 Hollywood. It is the story of Ellie and the people in her life, but we see WWII and Pearl Harbor, Japanese internment in California, and the history of the movie studios. This book was a nice conclusion to this trilogy.
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Ellie Hogan has been living in America for quite some time and now she is a single mom of two boys and trying to raise them in the best way. One of her boys has been thinking about a life in LA as an actor and decides to up and leave boarding school and head there on his own. Ellie isn't happy with his decision and follows him there where they set up a home and help him follow this dream.
While the LA dream was the main storyline, I loved how the author weaved in other historical moments that were occurring at the same time and same place - the moments of Pearl Harbor and the effects from this time to the Japanese Americans. I also loved the inclusion of the workings of early Hollywood and the invent of the actor's agent and how the studios were formed and their early workings.
Ellie Hogan has been living in America for quite some time and now she is a single mom of two boys and trying to raise them in the best way. One of her boys has been thinking about a life in LA as an actor and decides to up and leave boarding school and head there on his own. Ellie isn't happy with his decision and follows him there where they set up a home and help him follow this dream.
While the LA dream was the main storyline, I loved how the author weaved in other historical moments that were occurring at the same time and same place - the moments of Pearl Harbor and the effects from this time to the Japanese Americans. I also loved the inclusion of the workings of early Hollywood and the invent of the actor's agent and how the studios were formed and their early workings.
