A devastating earthquake that rocked Southern California turns Jill Cassidy's life upside down, but the quake is nothing compared to what looms on the horizon. Armed with determination and an incomplete graduate degree in geology, Jill embarks on a dangerous journey through a world of elves and mons
Valley Fever
โ Scribed by Taylor, Katherine
- Book ID
- 108678877
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 267 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780374299149
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โฆ Synopsis
**A razor-sharp, cross-generational tragicomedy set in California's wine-soaked Central Valley
**
Ingrid Palamede never returns to places she's lived in the past. For her, "whole neighborhoods, whole cities, can be ruined by the reasons you left." But when her boyfriend, Howard, en route to Aspen, breaks things off out of the blue, she's forced to return to her childhood home of Fresno, California. Back in the real wine country, where grapes are grown for mass producers like Gallo and Kendall-Jackson, Ingrid must confront her aging parents and their financial woes, soured friendships, and blissfully bad decisions. But along the way, she rediscovers her love for the land, her talent for harvesting grapes, and a deep fondness and forgiveness for the very first place she ever left.
With all the sharp-tongued wit of her first novel, Rules for Saying Goodbye , Katherine Taylor examines high-class, small-town life among the grapes--on the vine or soaked...
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