The Nature of Fragile Things

Susan Meissner

earliest edition we have, 2021 Berkley Books, 2021 hardcover 384 pages

"April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be...

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The Nature of Fragile Things paperback · 2022 · Berkley · 384 pages · 9780451492197
The Nature of Fragile Things hardcover · 2021 · Berkley Books · 384 pages · 9780451492180
The Nature of Fragile Things edition · 2021 · Thorndike Press Large Print · 509 pages · 9781432885403

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