Swimming on Broken Ground

by Mark Chambers

Swimming on Broken Ground is the story of Henry Nalbandian, the son of Armenian immigrants, payroll clerk at the Kern River oil field, and Ruthie Brown, a young African American cleaning woman at the county hospital. They meet on the night of the 1952 Bakersfield earthquake, the third most powerful earthquake in California recorded history. Together they face the disapproval of society against interracial relationships and the violent designs of two...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1505792037
• ISBN13: 9781505792034
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"