The fates of these three women intertwine on the eve of the devastating earthquake, thrusting them onto a perilous journey that will test their resiliency and resolve and, ultimately, their belief that love can overcome fear.įrom the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War and As Bright as Heaven comes a gripping novel about the bonds of friendship and mother love, and the power of female solidarity. The second is hundreds of miles away in the American Southwest, grieving the loss of everything she once loved. The first, pretty and pregnant, is standing on her doorstep. Sophie discovers hidden ties to two other women. At first newly-married Sophie is able to convince herself shes happy. Then one early-spring evening, a stranger at the door sets in motion a transforming chain of events. THE NATURE OF FRAGILE THINGS is about a mail-order bride in 1905 who is so desperate to get out of a terrible tenement in NYC that she agrees to marry a San Francisco widower shes never met and become an instant mother to his 5-year-old daughter. Sophie quickly develops deep affection for Kat, Martin's silent five-year-old daughter, but Martin's odd behavior leaves her with the uneasy feeling that something about her newfound situation isn't right. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly handsome. The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner: 9780451492197 : Books April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about.
Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno.
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