Snow Falling on Cedars
On San Piedro, an island of rugged, spectacular beauty in Puget Sound, home to salmon fishermen and strawberry farmers, a Japanese-American fisherman stands trial, charged with coldblooded murder. The year is 1954, and the shadow of World War II, with its brutality abroad and internment of Japanese Americans at home, hangs over the courtroom. Ishma...show more
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Some parts were hard to get through but overall a fantastic book! I struggled a little through the love story of hatsue and Ishmael and it kind of drove me nuts that they never ended up together haha buuuut that being said, they probably weren't right for one another anyways. Kabuo was a good man and wouldn't of deserved to of been abandoned by hatsue so I understand why the author ended their story the way he did
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