The Meadowlark Sings by Helen Ruth Schwartz is a refreshingly different tale.  Fantasy and romance blend together with just a dash of sci-fi as we peer into the possibility of a future where lesbians and gays have their own country and the United States expatriates their homosexual children to this country by the age of three.  The reader must first suspend any knowledge of what the experts say can never happen in California—that, in the greatest earthquake the state has ever seen, two-thirds of the state is ripped from the mainland in an immense catastrophic rift.  However, if the reader allows herself to enter into the fantasy of “what if…,” Schwartz has given us a truly wonderful story.