Book Party Book Club

In-Person Program

Held the first Wednesday of each month at the San Dimas Senior Center, 201 E Bonita Ave. This month's selection is "Nature of Fragile Things" by Susan Meissner. Copies are available for check out at the circulation desk. For Adults.

This month's selection is "Nature of Fragile Things" by Susan Meissner.  April 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 beautiful. While Sophie quickly develops deep affection for Kat, Martin's silent five-year-old daughter, his odd behavior leaves her with the uneasy feeling that something about her newfound situation isn't right. Then one early-spring evening, a stranger at the door sets in motion a transforming chain of events.