Malibu Rising

Malibu, August 1983. The four Riva siblings — surfer Nina, brothers Jay and Hud, and baby sister Kit — are Malibu royalty, the beautiful, famous children of the legendary singer Mick Riva, who abandoned them long ago. Every year they throw an epic end-of-summer party at Nina's clifftop house, and tonight's promises to be the biggest yet.

Over the course of a single day and night, the novel moves between the hours counting down to the party and the decades of family history that shaped it: their mother's sacrifices, their father's absences, and the private wounds each sibling carries beneath their golden image. By the time the sun rises, the Riva mansion will have burned to the ground — and everyone's secrets will have surfaced.

Taylor Jenkins Reid weaves a sweeping story of family, fame, and the tangled loyalties of siblings, set against the sun-bleached glamour of early-eighties California.