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 Hiram and Sibyl Eisenberg have fallen head-over-heels in love with Leif and Laura Wrightson. Leif and Laura return all the same passion for Sibyl and Hiram, yet all four remain committed to their spouses. What to do? The year is 1971, the place is California, and what never before seemed possible is suddenly irresistible. Camping on the shores of Fallen Lake in the high Sierra, one night they begin a new direction in their lives and those of their children, turning two marriages into one. Soon the lovers realize that they will have to pay deeply for living out their fantasy.
Buy Fallen Lake as an ebook in your choice of formats or as a print book.
Read about Fallen Lake and the related interactive novel. Or visit the website of the author, Laird Harrison.
 Yvonne Daley had worked as an award-winning journalist and traveled widely, but had never lived in an inner-city neighborhood before moving to San Francisco in 2003. In Octavia Boulevard, we follow Daley as she chronicles the lives of her fellow apartment dwellers and the homeless people living in her neighborhood, the characters who hold forth at the corner coffee shop and the events that contribute to San Francisco’s reputation as the nation’s most enterprising and original city. Her memoir is simultaneously funny and heartbreaking as she explores the impact of the counterculture and deinstitutionalization, the conflict between progressive politics and capitalism, and her own response to people sleeping outside her door while the city spends tens of thousands to install mature palm trees and kaleidoscopes on the corner. Tag along and meet a host of quintessential San Franciscans, a Wisdom Man, a Silent Guy, a mayoral candidate running on the naked ticket, a quirky landlord, and a wise 80-year-old named Mae West.
Buy Octavia Boulevard.
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Praise for Verdant Titles FALLEN LAKE
“Laird Harrison has captured both the ardent optimism and the giddy naïveté of an era when anything seemed possible, even a new definition of love."
- Dashka Slater, author of The Wishing Box
“With a clear and unsentimental eye, and in flawless sharp-edged prose, Harrison gives us a modern-day Blithedale Romance.”
- Eric Miles Williamson, author of East Bay Grease.
“Written with grace, humor, intelligence, and an
inspiring affection for human nature.”
- Anastasia Hobbet, author of Small Kingdoms
OCTAVIA BOULEVARD
"I cannot stop reading this book! :) I tried to do chores the other day but repeatedly found myself with my nose in Octavia Boulevard. 'I’ll just read this short section and then go back to work…' quickly proved to be an impossible concept. Even though the world you create on your pages takes place on the very streets I frequent daily, the daily world of Daley is one I keep wanting to return to — the characters you introduce and paint with such life and color I feel as if I know them, your trips to the cafe and the discussions held there, I just can’t get enough. I’ve been very restless lately and it’s been a challenge to find a book that holds my attention. Congratulations to you and your wonderful book for doing what others couldn’t!"
- Kyveli Diener, journalist.
“Octavia Boulevard has captivated me! Even at the forward, I was transported to the 60′s and provided a glimpse of my own life then. After reading it, I had to read it again aloud to Andrea and she was drawn in as well. I’m on my patio in the Florida sunshine and regret that I have to leave this book to go to work. The writing is superb (no surprise), the characters are an artist’s dream come true and the story is universal. Forget the politics. Does it matter? The book is aces!!!”
- Carol Virga, reader, athlete, businesswoman.
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Hiram and Sibyl Eisenberg have fallen head-over-heels in love with Leif and Laura Wrightson. Leif and Laura return all the same passion for Sibyl and Hiram, yet all four remain committed to their spouses. What to do? The year is 1971, the place is California, and what never before seemed possible is suddenly irresistible. Camping on the shores of Fallen Lake in the high Sierra, one night they begin a new direction in their lives and those of their children, turning two marriages into one. Soon the lovers realize that they will have to pay deeply for living out their fantasy.
Yvonne Daley had worked as an award-winning journalist and traveled widely, but had never lived in an inner-city neighborhood before moving to San Francisco in 2003. In Octavia Boulevard, we follow Daley as she chronicles the lives of her fellow apartment dwellers and the homeless people living in her neighborhood, the characters who hold forth at the corner coffee shop and the events that contribute to San Francisco’s reputation as the nation’s most enterprising and original city. Her memoir is simultaneously funny and heartbreaking as she explores the impact of the counterculture and deinstitutionalization, the conflict between progressive politics and capitalism, and her own response to people sleeping outside her door while the city spends tens of thousands to install mature palm trees and kaleidoscopes on the corner. Tag along and meet a host of quintessential San Franciscans, a Wisdom Man, a Silent Guy, a mayoral candidate running on the naked ticket, a quirky landlord, and a wise 80-year-old named Mae West.