(Scribner Book Company) Meet Vera, the oldest living survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake — one of the worst and deadliest earthquakes in the history of the United States — who, having managed to escape her collapsed home with her sister, witnessed so much of her city destroyed, by the quake and by the resulting devastating fires. With a lens crystallized by crisis, the days immediately following the quake are chronicled here, and Vera, headstrong with a sharp tongue, found herself more alive after … (read more)
