Aftershocks
By: by William Lavender.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Orlando, Fla
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Subjects: Sex role -- Fiction.; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.; Sisters -- Fiction.; Conduct of life -- Fiction.; Chinese Americans -- Fiction.; Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco -- Fiction.; San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In San Francisco from 1903 to 1908, teenager Jessie Wainwright determines to reach her goal of becoming a doctor while also trying to care for the illegitimate child of a liaison between her father and their Chinese maid.