Aftershocks by Jess Wells

Aftershocks

Jess Wells

This classic tale of control, fear and upheaval, features Trout, a successful businesswoman unaccustomed to losing control…Her partner-in-life Patricia, eyewitness to the collapse of abuilding she hleped construct…Cherice, a bisexual trapped in an elevator with a straight man… Louise, whose bar becomes a haven for so many whose lives have suddenly become upended.

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Trout, aka Tracy Giovanni, is businesswoman and organizer extraordinaire. She has everything under control: a procedure for every task. Until the earthquake.

When the Big One hits San Francisco–8.0 on the Richter scale–things rock apart. And the aftershocks ripple through the lives of Trout, her partner Patricia and step-daughter Beth, and their friends and neighbours. The baby in the rubble, the women who dies in the street, the ducks caught in the oil spill: these are not the stuff of everyday life. They spring from disaster–chaos–and they take people back. Trout revisits her haunting childhood on the lake; Patricia, the poverty of small-town Kentucky; Lynn, the spirits of her ancestors.

The aftershocks also propel people forwards. New shapes emerge from the jumble as the people of San Francisco reorganize their physical and psychological orientations in the world.

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Details

ISBN	1879427087
Genre	Fiction
Publication Date	May-92
Publisher	Third Side Press
Format	Trade Paperback
No. of Pages	227
Language	English
Rating	NotRated
BookID	239