Why this lender recommends it

"Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson was an interesting novel. At first i didn’t like it at all. I persevered and ended up loving it. Set in 1954 on a small fictional island off the coast of Washington State 10 years after the end of WW2 prejudices still ran high against the Japanese. When a fisherman comes up dead an investigation leads to possible foul place. The defendant has to prove his innocence with a big odd against him, his race. This books takes the reader through multiple genres that would fit many book lovers. It is character driven with a historical fiction setting and romance. Police and detective working against racism and prejudices of all kinds that ultimately fits the courtroom dramas many readers enjoy. In 1999 this enjoyable novel was made into a movie." - Reviewer on Goodreads.com

About this book

Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric—a masterpiece of suspense San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo's wife; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched.

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Perfect