Book description
The San Andreas Fault is both a real and a metaphorical player in this novel of northern California in the early 70s. Set on a ranch near Monterey Bay, it explores relationships in a family jarred by the return of a son from Vietnam, almost whole but shaken and confused.…
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1 author picked Continental Drift as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
James D. Houston is an underrated California novelist, and Continental Drift is his best book.
I love this story of a family trying to re-establish a life in a world haunted by the aftermath of the Vietnam War and threatened by a string of inexplicable murders.
Houston’s descriptions of the land rival Steinbeck’s, and he situates the family’s home on the legendary San Andreas Fault—symbolically invoking the potential for disaster that lurks beneath the fertile soil.
From Lawrence's list on books on California as fiction, myth, reality.
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