In the spring of 1902 on the Caribbean island of Martinique in the town of St. Pierre, a man named Baptiste Cyparis survives a devastating volcanic eruption. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic Ocean in England, at more or less the same moment, mathematician Edward Love proves the existence of the surface seismic waves that cause the Earth to shift during…
Claire Holden Rothman
Claire Holden Rothman’s latest novel, My October, will be published by Penguin Canada in the autumn of 2014.