Strong Motion

by Jonathan Franzen

Genres: General Fiction

Synopsis

Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything.

Release date: August 30, 2010

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Print pages: 488