In the Heart of the Valley of Love (California Fiction) Author: Cynthia Kadohata
	Book Information Publisher: University of California Press Book Type: Paperback Members Wishing: 0 Rating: 1 ISBN-13: 9780520207288 - ISBN-10: 0520207289 Publication Date: 4/14/1997 Pages: 225

Cynthia Kadohata explores human relationships in a Los Angeles of the future, where rich and poor are deeply polarized and where water, food, and gas, not to mention education, cannot be taken for granted. There is an intimate, understated, even gentle quality to Kadohata's writingthis is not an apocalyptic dystopiathat makes it difficult to shrug off the version of the future embodied in her book.