After their first kiss, and despite her mother’s fear of exactly what will come to pass, “June Costas was a goner.” When times are tough, it helps that her family owns Pacific Fish, which will eventually be rebranded as Riva’s Seafood. Their mother is June, a sweet woman who meets as-yet-unknown Mick in 1956. The first among these is tall, lithe, altruistic Nina, proud and competent beyond her years, who, at 17, acting in loco parentis, saved her three younger siblings from social-services intervention. He enters and leaves marriages with impunity, but who can blame a character whose “gravitational pull was such that he had to repel anyone he did not wish to actively attract”? To his credit - and to the credit of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s eighth novel, “Malibu Rising,” which introduces Mick - he has fathered stable, loyal, talented children.
Everyone in Malibu knows the four children of Mick Riva, a pop singer of Frank Sinatra-level fame and irresistible, movie-star good looks.
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