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Carol Edgarian

Biography

Carol Edgarian

New York Times bestselling author Carol Edgarian’s novels include VERA, THREE STAGES OF AMAZEMENT and RISE THE EUPHRATES. Her essays and articles regularly appear in national magazines and anthologies, and she is editor of THE WRITER'S LIFE: Intimate Thoughts on Work, Love, Inspiration, and Fame. She is cofounder and editor of Narrative, a leading digital publisher of fiction, poetry, essays and art, and Narrative in the Schools, which provides free reading and writing resources to students and teachers in 19 countries. She lives in San Francisco with her family.

Carol Edgarian

Books by Carol Edgarian

Vera
by Carol Edgarian - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Meet Vera Johnson, 15-year-old illegitimate daughter of Rose, notorious proprietor of San Francisco’s most legendary bordello. Vera has grown up straddling two worlds --- the madam’s alluring sphere, replete with tickets to the opera, surly henchmen and scant morality, and the quiet domestic life of the family paid to raise her. On the morning of the great quake, Vera’s worlds collide. As the city burns and looters vie with the injured, orphaned and starving, Vera and her guileless sister, Pie, are cast adrift. Disregarding societal norms and prejudices, Vera begins to imagine a new kind of life. She collaborates with Tan, her former rival, and forges an unlikely family of survivors, navigating through the disaster together.