Exposure

Set in Chicago, Dellaira’s (In Search of Us) adult debut pulsates with the city’s energy. It offers readers familiar with the area strong sensory, sensual reference points that are depicted with enough details for the audience to feel at home in Juliette’s, Annie’s, Noah’s, and Jesse’s worlds. Beginning in 2004 with characters clinging to each other in high school, the book expands as their lives and identities do. That’s especially the case when Noah succeeds as a filmmaker in Hollywood—an accomplishment that unfolds and unfurls through the complex, dynamic relationships driven by grief and desire. This successful grown-up departure from Dellaira’s YA fiction brings readers into the beautiful, messy worlds and words of the four people at the center of the story. The novel is told from their perspectives as their lives became entwined through chance and through the obstacles they face while they pursue and experience various chapters in their lives.