Books in the California Fiction series

Traces the odyssey of Billy and Saxon Roberts from the labor strife of Oakland at the turn of the century through Central and Northern California in search of land they can farm independently - a journey that echoes Jack London's own escape from urban poverty.

Written by the author of "The Floating World", this novel explores human relationships in a Los Angeles of the future, where rich and poor are deeply polarized and where water, food, gas and education cannot be taken for granted.

A novel about coming of age in the new America, a place in which races and cultures have not so much melded as collided and in which no identity is secure.

A freak accident leaves Frank Eastman a paraplegic. He imagines his existence to be in Los Angeles, the scene of his accident. He settles in a run-down motel near Disneyland with eccentric neighbours and through mesmerizing conversations with them becomes changed emotionally as he is physically.

Set in a small town near San Francisco during World War II, this novel relates the confusions, dislocations, and brutality of war as they affect the home front. We see events through the eyes of a novice teacher, an abandoned boy, two young girls and a sailor scarred by his time in the war zone.