![]() ![]() For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries-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. ![]() In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering and surprising turns of evidence and at the same time a mystery, something altogether richer and deeper." - Los Angeles Times San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. NATIONAL BESTSELLER * PEN/Faulkner Award Winner * A gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric masterpiece of courtroom suspense-one that leaves us shaken and changed. ![]()
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