The Phoenix Crown takes place in 1906 San Francisco in the events leading up to, during, and after the famous earthquake. Gemma Garland is an opera singer trying to start her life over in San Francisco, but the artist friend she moved out to live with has mysteriously disappeared. Suling Feng lives in Chinatown and… Continue reading Review: The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang
Right Back Where We Started From by Joy Lanzendorfer is a sweeping and complex multi-generational story set against the backdrop of an evolving America from the mid-19th century to WWII. In a way, it's also a love letter to the state of California and all the multitudes contained therein: the glamorous mystique of Hollywood, the… Continue reading Review: Right Back Where We Started From by Joy Lanzendorfer
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