If you were fortunate enough to spend some time in your book nook recently, maybe you had a chance to read this page turning “whodunnit” with a deep underlying theme of love, loss, humanity and justice. I would put “Snow Falling on Cedars” By David Guterson on your must read list if you enjoy a good story with some suspense, but like something to read where you learn a thing or two along the way. For me, it was the treatment of the American Japanese living in the United states after Pearl Harbour was bombed. I got a deep sense of the family life turned upside down by the attitudes that changed towards people of Japanese decent, regardless of the fact that they were American born citizens. It reminds me how in many ways we have not changed our human condition, just the different faces that is victimizes. The story is centred around a man accused of murder in the first degree, of a beloved fisherman in the village. As the story unfolds, we are told the story of prejudices, unrequited love, and honour and how it comes together to bring justice to the village.
Enjoy!
