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From the award-winning author of The Danish Girl and The Rose City, Pasadena tells the story of Linda Stamp, a fishergirl born in 1903 on a coastal onion farm, and the three men who change her life- her jealous brother, Edmund; Bruder, the orphan Linda's father brings home from World War I; and a Pasadena orange rancher named Willis Poore. The novel spans Linda's adventurous and romantic life, weaving the tales of her Mexican mother and her German-born father with those of the rural Pacific Coast of her youth and of the small, affluent city, Pasadena, that becomes her home. Pasadena is a novel of passion and history, about a woman and a place in perpetual transformation.

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Wuthering Heights meets East of Eden. --The Wall Street Journal Pasadena is like a grand opera. . . . [David] Ebershoff must be applauded for the grandness of his design, for grand characters, For grand setting, and . . . for his grand vision of Pasadena as the center of 'real history.' --Los Angeles Times Book Review Both a triumph of historical re-creation and a full-bodied romance . . . You feel that, if you were transported back to Pasadena in 1925, Ebershoff's book would enable you to find your way around perfectly. --Baltimore Sun Ebershoff's crafting of characters is so sharp, so perfect, that we ache for most of them. . . . [He] has us in thrall, and every word he writes counts. --Fort Worth Star-Telegram Full of detail and unerring language . . . magically evokes the rich and varied landscape of Southern California.' --The Boston Sunday Globe A luxurious tragedy . . . gorgeous, full of romance and disaster . . . Pasadena is a novel to get lost in. --The Christian Science Monitor Wuthering Heights meets East of Eden. The Wall Street Journal Pasadena is like a grand opera. . . . [David] Ebershoff must be applauded for the grandness of his design, for grand characters, For grand setting, and . . . for his grand vision of Pasadena as the center of real history. Los Angeles Times Book Review Both a triumph of historical re-creation and a full-bodied romance . . . You feel that, if you were transported back to Pasadena in 1925, Ebershoff s book would enable you to find your way around perfectly. Baltimore Sun Ebershoff s crafting of characters is so sharp, so perfect, that we ache for most of them. . . . [He] has us in thrall, and every word he writes counts. Fort Worth Star-Telegram Full of detail and unerring language . . . magically evokes the rich and varied landscape of Southern California. The Boston Sunday Globe A luxurious tragedy . . . gorgeous, full of romance and disaster . . . Pasadena is a novel to get lost in. The Christian Science Monitor Wuthering Heights meets East of Eden. The Wall Street Journal Pasadena is like a grand opera. . . . [David] Ebershoff must be applauded for the grandness of his design, for grand characters, For grand setting, and . . . for his grand vision of Pasadena as the center of real history. Los Angeles Times Book Review Both a triumph of historical re-creation and a full-bodied romance . . . You feel that, if you were transported back to Pasadena in 1925, Ebershoff s book would enable you to find your way around perfectly. Baltimore Sun Ebershoff s crafting of characters is so sharp, so perfect, that we ache for most of them. . . . [He] has us in thrall, and every word he writes counts. Fort Worth Star-Telegram Full of detail and unerring language . . . magically evokes the rich and varied landscape of Southern California. The Boston Sunday Globe A luxurious tragedy . . . gorgeous, full of romance and disaster . . . Pasadena is a novel to get lost in. The Christian Science Monitor Wuthering Heights meets East of Eden . --The Wall Street Journal Pasadena is like a grand opera. . . . [David] Ebershoff must be applauded for the grandness of his design, for grand characters, For grand setting, and . . . for his grand vision of Pasadena as the center of 'real history.' --Los Angeles Times Book Review Both a triumph of historical re-creation and a full-bodied romance . . . You feel that, if you were transported back to Pasadena in 1925, Ebershoff's book would enable you to find your way around perfectly. --Baltimore Sun Ebershoff's crafting of characters is so sharp, so perfect, that we ache for most of them. . . . [He] has us in thrall, and every word he writes counts. --Fort Worth Star-Telegram Full of detail and unerring language . . . magically evokes the rich and varied landscape of Southern California.' --The Boston Sunday Globe A luxurious tragedy . . . gorgeous, full of romance and disaster . . . Pasadena is a novel to get lost in. --The Christian Science Monitor Wuthering Heights meets East of Eden, --The Wall Street Journal Pasadena is like a grand opera. . . . [David] Ebershoff must be applauded for the grandness of his design, for grand characters, For grand setting, and . . . for his grand vision of Pasadena as the center of 'real history.' --Los Angeles Times Book Review Both a triumph of historical re-creation and a full-bodied romance . . . You feel that, if you were transported back to Pasadena in 1925, Ebershoff's book would enable you to find your way around perfectly. --Baltimore Sun Ebershoff's crafting of characters is so sharp, so perfect, that we ache for most of them. . . . [He] has us in thrall, and every word he writes counts. --Fort Worth Star-Telegram Full of detail and unerring language . . . magically evokes the rich and varied landscape of Southern California.' --The Boston Sunday Globe A luxurious tragedy . . . gorgeous, full of romance and disaster . . . Pasadena is a novel to get lost in. --The Christian Science Monitor Wuthering Heights meets East of Eden. --The Wall Street Journal Pasadena is like a grand opera. . . . [David] Ebershoff must be applauded for the grandness of his design, for grand characters, For grand setting, and . . . for his grand vision of Pasadena as the center of 'real history.' --Los Angeles Times Book Review Both a triumph of historical re-creation and a full-bodied romance . . . You feel that, if you were transported back to Pasadena in 1925, Ebershoff's book would enable you to find your way around perfectly. --Baltimore Sun Ebershoff's crafting of characters is so sharp, so perfect, that we ache for most of them. . . . [He] has us in thrall, and every word he writes counts. --Fort Worth Star-Telegram Full of detail and unerring language . . . magically evokes the rich and varied landscape of Southern California.' --The Boston Sunday Globe A luxurious tragedy . . . gorgeous, full of romance and disaster . . . Pasadena is a novel to get lost in. --The Christian Science Monitor

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David Ebershoffis the author of the novelsThe 19th Wife, Pasadena,andThe Danish Girl,and a short-story collection,The Rose City. His fiction has won a number of awards, including the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Ferro-Grumley Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. His books have been translated into twenty languages to critical acclaim.The 19th Wifewas made into a television movie andThe Danish Girlis under development as a feature film. Ebershoff teaches in the graduate writing program at Columbia University and is an editor-at-large at Random House. He lives in New York City.

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