Quake

This is a story about the San Francisco Earthquake, and centers on the life of young Jacob Kaufman. It starts out with life being quite normal and Jacob meeting relatives, doing his job, and his homelife. He befriends a dog and takes it home, the next morning having to go an on errand to leave the dog outside or with someone else when the quake hits.

The quake itself covers maybe a page of material; the rest of the book deals with Jacob trying to find his mother and younger sister, and making friends with a boy from Chinatown. The book describes the fires, how the town looked, and the various camps set up to house refugees. It also deals with the prejudice against Chinese that was present among many people of the time.

The book is okay, but I have read better on the subject. Putting the anti-Chinese theme in the book is interesting, but not terribly essential to the main subject of the book itself which was the earthquake.


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