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The San Andreas Fault is both a real and a metaphorical player in this novel of northern California in the early 70s. Set on a ranch near Monterey Bay, it explores relationships in a family jarred by the return of a son from Vietnam, almost whole but shaken and confused. His return coincides with a series of bizarre killings that panic the community a reminder that in the legary land of promise abundant possibilities and agents of destruction live side by side. Author Biography: James D. Houston is the author of six novels, two collections of short stories, and several nonfiction works including, with Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar. A resident of Santa Cruz, he has received numerous writing awards.
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Bill Bridger
reviewed Continental drift on July 25, 2008
Continental drift
I enjoyed reading a novel that takes place in a place I know well--Santa Cruz, California and environs. It's also a portrait of a time, the early 1970s, with a dark vision of violence wrought by humans (the Vietnam War and a serial murderer on the loose) and nature (earthquakes, of course, since this is California). I was very interested in the insights of the main character, Montrose. The women characters were less well-fleshed out. I was bothered by the verb tense; sometimes a book works well in first-person, but this one felt a bit awkward. However, I was able to put that in the back of my mind, and there were times I didn't want to put it down.
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