The Nature of Fragile Things contemporary poetry and memoir and suspenseful

and suspenseful

Anna must get close to Liam

antique texture—just like pages pulled from history

Quincy is sent to prison

The Nature of Fragile Things contemporary poetry and memoir and suspensefulRich with emotion, mystery, and historical detail, The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner is a captivating story of resilience, friendship, and survival set during the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Irish immigrant Sophie Whalen escapes the hardships of a New York tenement by answering a mail order bride advertisement and marrying a widower in San Francisco. While Sophie grows attached to her husbands quiet young daughter,