Three teenagers gather for their last 420 smokeout and a few moments of coercive friendship, good music and halcyon narcotics. Little do they realize their customized dooms await them... Calm Before An Earthquake - the first of Felix Purat's California Tales - is a tremulous coming-of-age tale cloaked in the ominous nostalgia of a disguised golden age. A powerful refutation of "the end of history" concept, this mouse of a novel lives in a room with an elephant, namely: what went wrong in Eden?