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By Ciji Ware

"Blindly, she inched alongside a ground pitching as violently because the deck of a ship in a midwinter hurricane. Her fingers touched the brink commencing onto the 9th flooring lobby on the fast the glass transom over her head exploded right into a thousand items. Reflexively, Amelia forged her correct arm in entrance of her face, yet now not prior to blood spurted from her scalp and ran down her tests. She crumpled underneath the doorframe, curling right into a ball. Amelia screamed back as a twenty-five-foot expanse of wooden paneling and masonry pitched outward and plunged 9 tales to Montgomery highway less than. She knew that no constitution on landfill, irrespective of how good outfitted, may well stand up to even more shaking with out collapsing. Then, simply as all at once, the convulsions subsided." Early in 1906, the floor in San Francisco shook constructions and lives from their cozy foundations. Amidst rubble, corruption, and deceit, women-young architects in a urban and box governed by means of men-find themselves racing the clock and every different in the course of the rebuilding of competing motels within the urban via the Bay. in line with meticulous examine, A Race to beauty tells the tale of the audacious humans of 1 of the world's nice towns rebuilding and reinventing themselves after large human tragedy. full of braveness, ardour, and clash, Amelia Bradshaw's spirit will seize your mind's eye as she strives to redraft her lifestyles amidst the ruins with either aid and quandary from a wayward son of privilege who pulls her into worlds she'd by no means have identified. "Richly drawn characters...will preserve you turning those pages!" -Michael Llewellyn, writer of 12th evening (20110214)