Barbara H. (Bobsy) reviewed on 12/30/2005 + 69 more book reviews

San Piedra Island of Puget Wound 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 Jqpanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In th ecourse of the ensuing trial it beco es clear that what is at stake is more than one man;s guilt For on San iedro memeory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries memories of a charmed love affai betwwen a white boy and Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabus's wife memoried of land desired paid for and lost

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