Pasadena

Pasadena, David Ebershoffs sweeping, richly imagined novel, is set against the backdrop of Southern California during the first half of the twentieth century and charts its rapid transformation from frontier to suburb. At the storys center is Linda Stamp, a fishergirl born in 1903 on a coastal onion farm in San Diegos North County, and the three men who upend her life and vie for her affection.