When Mountains Walked

Two generations of women struggle with love—and journey to remote corners of the world—in this “remarkably passionate and engaging” novel ( San Francisco Chronicle ).   From a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, When Mountains Walked tells of two parallel love affairs, years apart. In the 1940s, Althea Baines follows her seismologist husband to the heart of the Indian subcontinent to trace the origins of earthquakes. Here, awakening to a form of spirituality she had never imagined, she eventually