Title: Annie's soup kitchen : a novel /
Authors: Smith, Lawrence R., 1945-
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Environmentalists Fiction; Soup kitchens Fiction.; Older women Fiction.; Floods Fiction; California, Southern Fiction.
Abstract: "The "shadow plague" is striking young and old throughout the world with severe amnesia, dementia, and eventual death, and no one knows the cause or the cure. Annie O'Rourke, a ninety-five-year-old retired nurse who runs a soup kitchen for the homeless in Lemon City, California, believes environmental degradation is the culprit. Development and pollution have devastated the Santa Ana River watershed, and Annie is convinced that if she purifies the river, she will cure Southern California's plague victims and stimulate worldwide healing."