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Snow falling on cedars / David Guterson.

ISBN: 9780151001002 (hc.)
ISBN: 0151001006 (hc.)
ISBN: 9780679764021 (pbk.)
ISBN: 067976402X (pbk.)
Physical Description: x, 345 p. ; 24 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1994.

Summary:

In 1954, Ishmael Chambers, a local reporter who lost an arm in the war, covers the murder trial of a Japanese-American fisherman, whose wife had been Ishmael's boyhood sweetheart

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. - "Goodreads"