Snow Falling on Cedars

Even if the person is not writing about nature, they end up writing about nature.

I think of Snow Falling on Cedars that we just read in January, and that book is full of Pacific Northwest imagery, even though that's not what it's about.

Whoever wants to take this first, what do you think it is about this region that just permeates our artistic cores? What is going on?

Well, I think it's why Emily moved here from

And so each person's experience of nature is very individualized because there are so many things to explore here.

Were you going to add something? I was just going to say on the sort of literary front, I think the pervading, what used to be mild winters that were just sort of gray and drizzly and hunkered down.

And I mean, that's what I think permeates snow falling on cedars.

And a lot of other literature about the region is that sort of winter, that's that sort of gray winter.

Exactly.

Which brings us to what David Guterson does in his novel, Snow Falling on Cedars.

He doesn't just give us a murder trial.

He traps the trial inside a catastrophic blizzard.