Annie is 37 weeks pregnant, standing in IKEA, finally about to take home the crib she should have bought months ago. That's when it happens—the long-anticipated Cascadia Earthquake, dismantling Portland and the entire Pacific Northwest in a matter of minutes. Propulsive, disruptive, funny, terrifying, is a novel about how the foundations of our lives are built and shaken. About a woman trying to walk back to the husband she's long been pushing away. About put-off dreams and inevitability and what makes us keep moving forward. 'The most embodied twenty-four hours of narrative I can remember reading. Through the eyes of the prickly, funny, and very pregnant narrator, we viscerally experience the surreal, unbearable, comic, and beautiful ways that humans behave in a crisis. meets meets.
