Quakeland
By (Author) Francesca Lia Block
Manic D Press,U.S.
Manic D Press,U.S.
9th July 2008
United States
General
Fiction
813.54
224
Width 139mm, Height 215mm
443g
After enduring, from afar, a seemingly endless series of worldwide disasters - including 9/11 and the asian tsunami - while living in earthquake-prone Los Angeles, bereft Katrina experiences deep inner longings for some sense of permanence, meaning and intimacy. A pre-school teacher contemplating the unsettling challenges of her mid-life, she finds solace in her dear friend Grace and conflict in the arms of narcissistic yoga intstructor Jasper. Quakeland speaks in a deeply stirring female voice to an unspoken sense of universal longing quietly prevalent today.
(praise for previous books) "Block's writing is as lush and luminous, as hip and wise as ever."--Publishers Weekly "Transcendent."--The New York Times Book Review "A poetic series of books celebrating love, art, and the imagination, all in hyper-lyrical l