Pasadena

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 Lindas father brings home from World War I; and a Pasadena orange rancher named Willis Poore. The novel spans Lindas 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.