Faultline by Sheila Ortiz Taylor

Arden Benbow was caught releasing domestic rabbits into a wilderness area outside Los Angeles. She said that owning three hundred rabbits made her look eccentric. She had received a pair of rabbits that multiplied rapidly, so she decided to set them free. Arden was born on the San Andreas fault in Southern California and said that the minor earthquakes she experienced as a child developed her maternal instincts and made her determined to have a large family to counteract her fears of extinction. Arden told the story of her life as an explanation of her present, and...