โStrong Motionโ is the brilliant, bold second novel from the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of โThe Correctionsโ and โFreedomโ. Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of strange happenings โ earthquakes strike the city, and the first one kills his grandmother. During a bitter feud over the inheritance Louis falls in love with Renรฉe Seitchek, a passionate and brilliant seismologist, whose discoveries about the origin of the earthquakes complicate everything. Potent and vivid, โStrong Motionโ is a complex story of change from the forceful imagination of Jonathan Franzen.
Jonathan Franzen is the author of โThe Twenty-Seventh Cityโ, โStrong Motionโ, โThe Correctionsโ and โHow to be Aloneโ. His fiction and nonfiction appear frequently in The New Yorker and Harperโs, and he was named one of the best American novelists under forty by Granta and The New Yorker. He lives in New York City.