It’s been a long time since I read this book, or any by Guterson, to be honest. But…I can say with assuredness, that he is one of the great contemporary writers of the Pacific Northwest, my home state of Washington, more specifically. I wrote a rather lengthy research paper on his works in college, the focal point being Snow Falling on Cedars, which is a beautiful historical novel centered around a murder case on San Piedero Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the mid-1950s. A Japanese-American man is accused of killing a well-respected white fisherman, and the novel centers around the court case, as well as flashbacks…