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Book World: 'Vera' bears witness to the lives ruined by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake Bethanne Patrick, The Washington Post March 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail - - - "For fifteen years I'd been waiting for a catastrophe greater than my birth," says the eponymous protagonist of Carol Edgarian's new novel "Vera." "The quake gave it to me." By "the quake" Vera means the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Vera, at 15, feels like most things revolve around her experience, including this disaster. She has a flair for the dramatic. Brought up by Swedish widow Morie (a diminutive for "...

Please Donate Downtown politics helped build the Parkside Parkside and the Graft Trials By Woody LaBounty (Originally published in the WNP Member Newsletter, Spring 2002) The well-chronicled postscript to San Francisco's devastation in the 1906 Earthquake and Fire is the revealed municipal graft, and the resulting legal prosecution of the city's administration. Coinciding with the physical rebuilding of a great metropolis came the downfall of the city's "boss," Abraham Ruef. Using the Union Labor Party as his vehicle, Ruef orchestrated the election of Eugene Schmitz as mayor in 1901, and not ...

Rachel Zarrow February 28, 2021Updated: March 2, 2021, 8:42 pm “Vera” by Carol Edgarian Photo: Scribner Living in San Francisco in 1906, the eponymous Vera of Carol Edgarian’s latest novel is a headstrong and fiercely independent teenager. Born to Rose, the madam of one of the city’s most notorious bordellos, and placed in the care of Morie, a woman with alcohol and gambling addictions, Vera lives between two worlds and two families. Save for what she gleans from the occasional visit to Rose’s mansion on Lafayette Square, “which sat like a fat queen on the throne of P...