num_pages: 160
description: Victoria Nelson's stories, set in her native California, link natural settings with characters caught up in events not of their making. A San Francisco poet is kidnapped by the Russian mafia; an American visiting a provincial New Zealand town is gradually caught up in her host's immersion in Maori culture; a hapless stockbroker is pursued by a woman living in an abandoned school bus; a Halloween party on a Sausalito houseboat takes on an unexpected dimension.
language: English
title: Wild California
titlecomplete: Wild California
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Five Leaves Publications