Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson Audio Book

On San Piedro, an island of spectacular beauty in the Puget Sound, a Japanese-American fisherman stands trial, charged with murder. It is 1954 and the shadow of World War II, with its brutality abroad and the internment of Japanese-Americans at home, hangs over the courtroom.

Ishmael Chambers is among the journalists covering the trial that brings him close, once again, to Hatsue Miyamoto, the wife of the accused and Ishmael’s never-forgotten first love. As a heavy snowfall impedes the trial, the whole community is faced with the ambiguities of justice.