Cataclysm and Rebirth

Cataclysm and Rebirth is the first novel of this award-winning author's post-apocalyptic epic, Black Dreams Series.



The year: 2030. The setting: a grand opening gala at the remodeled San Francisco mansion--Belle's Art Gallery and Inn. All is aglitter when Belle and her family are spun into chaos by a climate-triggered earthquake and tsunami that devastated San Francisco. Pandemonium ensues, only intensified by the mixed-blessing birth of three "earthquake babies," which Belle and husband struggle to raise in the tumultuous aftermath.



Once relative calm is restored, the world is rocked by yet another climate-triggered event--this time illness and infertility. In Belle's determination to survive, to maintain her hotel/gallery, her suddenly expanded family, and her art career, she relies heavily on journalist husband, Forrest, and physician friend, Rush Rorrie. Unexpectedly, her art background and artist friends also play a crucial part in what it will take to survive their irrevocably altered world.



Themes



~Science, Art, and Spirituality

~Cllmate Change

~Lucid Dreaming

~Neurotherapy

~Tarot Images and Symbols



Compare to authors Emily St. John Mandel, Michael Gruber, Margaret Atwood, Mary Doria Russell.



"Gretchen Hummel has created a rich, complex, world that's both beautiful and scary..." Alison Baker, O. Henry Award Winner



"...from the beginning, I was gripped by Hummel's ability to pull together science and imagined technology with myth and spirituality, a winning combination..." Jaclyn Dolomore



Author



Gretchen Hummel is a 2011 Writer's Digest Award Finalist and a 2011 USA Best Books Award Finalist in two categories. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing as well as a Master of Science in Psychiatric Nursing.