âStrong Motionâ is the brilliant, bold second novel from the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of âThe Correctionsâ and âFreedomâ. Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of strange happenings â earthquakes strike the city, and the first one kills his grandmother. During a bitter feud over the inheritance Louis falls in love with RenÊe Seitchek, a passionate and brilliant seismologist, whose discoveries about the origin of the earthquakes complicate everything. Potent and vivid, âStrong Motionâ is a complex story of change from the forceful imagination of Jonathan Franzen.
Jonathan Franzen is the author of âThe Twenty-Seventh Cityâ, âStrong Motionâ, âThe Correctionsâ and âHow to be Aloneâ. His fiction and nonfiction appear frequently in The New Yorker and Harperâs, and he was named one of the best American novelists under forty by Granta and The New Yorker. He lives in New York City.