The Nature of Fragile Things

by Susan Meissner

Book Overview

April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed.

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. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451492196
• ISBN13: 9780451492197
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.1"