YA novelist Sara Beitia

Sara Beitia is the author of The Last Good Place of Lily Odilon, published by Minnesota's Flux Books. The Last Good Place is a young adult novel about a young man who's suspected in the disappearance of his girlfriend, Lily Odilon. He and Lily's sister set out to find Lily, hoping the police won't find them first.

In this interview, Sara discusses the complexity of writing a book that's set in three different moments of time, the way her degree in philosophy has influenced her writing, and the importance of young adults having their own "last good place."