Pasadena : a novel
/ David Ebershoff.
- Random House trade pbk. ed.
- New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks , 2003, c2002
- 498 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes reader's guide.
Set against the backdrop of Southern California during the first half of the twentieth century and charting its rapid transformation from frontier to suburb. At the story's center is Linda Stamp, a fishergirl born in 1903 on a coastal onion farm in San Diego's North County, and the three men who upend her life and vie for her affection: her pragmatic farming brother, Edmund; Captain Willis Poore, a Pasadena rancher with a heroic military past; and Bruder, the mysterious young man Linda's father brings home from World War I.