Conversations with Beethoven LAUREN DESTEFANO Malibu Rising is a story

Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them

Forced to work together

Giving in to our blazing attraction could be the death of us

--upside down

Conversations with Beethoven LAUREN DESTEFANO Malibu Rising is a storyInspired by the famous composer's notebooks, this biographical novel offers "a perfect portrait of an irascible genius" and "revelatory fossils of the last year of Beethoven's anguished life" (Edmund White) Deaf as he was, Beethoven had to be addressed in writing, and he was always accompanied by a notebook in which people could scribble questions and comments. In a tour de force fiction invention, Conversations with Beethoven tells the story of the