тАШStrong MotionтАЩ is the brilliant, bold second novel from the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of тАШThe CorrectionsтАЩ and тАШFreedomтАЩ. Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of strange happenings тАУ earthquakes strike the city, and the first one kills his grandmother. During a bitter feud over the inheritance Louis falls in love with Ren├йe Seitchek, a passionate and brilliant seismologist, whose discoveries about the origin of the earthquakes complicate everything. Potent and vivid, тАШStrong MotionтАЩ is a complex story of change from the forceful imagination of Jonathan Franzen.
Jonathan Franzen is the author of тАШThe Twenty-Seventh CityтАЩ, тАШStrong MotionтАЩ, тАШThe CorrectionsтАЩ and тАШHow to be AloneтАЩ. His fiction and nonfiction appear frequently in The New Yorker and HarperтАЩs, and he was named one of the best American novelists under forty by Granta and The New Yorker. He lives in New York City.