The Nature of Fragile Things -- Susan Meissner, Paperback Children's All Ages - Religion - Roman Catholic For kids who love unicorns

For kids who love unicorns

"Before we're halfway through this slim book

Against this dispiriting backdrop

and when the snow falls it is gray

This classic is revisited with new material that takes an incisive look at the post-Obama era from the war in Afghanistan to Charlottesville's white supremacy-fueled rallies

The Nature of Fragile Things -- Susan Meissner, Paperback Children's All Ages - Religion - Roman Catholic For kids who love unicornsApril 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly