pbFrom iTHE NEW YORK TIMES ibestselling author of iThe Correctionsi and iFreedomib pbiNew York Timesibb Bestselling AuthorbbrbNational Book Award Winnerb pbJonathan Franzen, an abundantly gifted writer, has even more nerve than talent iThe New York Timesi, and he refuses to play it safe in this bold, layered ecological thriller.b pLouis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of strange happenings--earthquakes strike the city, and the first one kills his grandmother. During a bitter feud over the inheritance, Louis falls in love with a young seismologist, Ren e Seitchek, whose theory about the origin of the earthquakes turns his world upside down. pbNo doubt about it Jonathan Franzen . . . is one of the most extraordinary writers around. --iNewsweekib pbiStrong Motioni seems for a while like a brilliant chaos. Bit by bit, the chaos settles . . . the brilliant things remain, and the connections among them begin to appear. --iLos Angeles Timesibp