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Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson's highly acclaimed novel, weaves difficult themes--justice, racism, the weight of memory--into a seamless, sensitive narrative that works amazingly well on audio. R.D. Wong reads, mirroring the smooth, understated quality of Guterson's style. Set in a small town on an island in Puget Sound in 1954, the story revolves around the trial of a Japanese-American accused of murdering a white fisherman he had known all his life. But the drama is as much in the flashbacks to the forceful interning of the Japanese residents during World War II, the tender coming-of-age love affair between a white boy, now the editor of the local paper, and a Japanese girl, now the wife of the accused man, the shifting trust and enmity between the two communities, as it is in the resolution of the murder case.
Sukey Howard reports on spoken word audio each month. She can be reached at sukey_howard@bookpage.com.
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