num_pages: 508
description: Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything.
language: English
title: Strong Motion
titlecomplete: Strong Motion
characters: Peter Stoorhuys, Louis Holland, Melanie Holland, Lauren Bowles, Howard Chun, Bob Holland, Philip Stites, Renée Seitchek, Eileen Holland
genres: American, Unfinished, The United States Of America, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Fiction
ratings_count: 5769
places: Greater Boston, Massachusetts
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc