Pasadena: A Novel

The life and loves of Linda Stamp, a fishergirl born in 1903 on a coastal onion farm, and those of the three men who transformer her life--her pragmatic farmer brother Edmund; Captain Willis Poore, a young orange rancher; and Bruder, an orphan brought back from World War I by her father--are set against the backfrop of early twentieth-century California as it evolves from frontier to suburb. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.