![]() ![]() But she was never particularly interested in how historians and politicians warp the nation's origin story. She was born in eastern Maryland and raised in Massachusetts, a breeding ground for American legends, from the first steps on Plymouth Rock to Paul Revere’s ride. The bestselling novelist who wrote Daisy Jones and The Six and now, Malibu Rising, out this week from Ballantine Books, Reid had every opportunity to build another Mount Olympus in her mind. ![]() A rooster crows from the neighboring yard, then a cement truck bumbles by. That’s why she’s here now, lounging on her Los Angeles porch in a white T-shirt and sunglasses, relishing the expected cocktail of warm breezes, dappled sunshine, swaying palm branches. In Taylor Jenkins Reid’s version of American mythology, the stories all start in California. ![]()
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