Our Lady of the Forest (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: David Guterson
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1999
- Setting: North Fork, Washington
- Principal Characters: Ann Holmes, Father Donald Collins, Carolyn Greer, Tom Cross, Eleanor Cross, Father Butler, Tammy, Sheriff Randolph Nelson
- Genres: Long fiction, Novel
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Fathers, Christianity, Women, Death or dying, Faith, Forests or forestry, Hallucinations or illusions, Pacific Northwest, 1990’s, Visions, epiphanies, or revelations, Pilgrims or pilgrimages, Church or churches, Lumber or lumbering, Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, Washington
- Locales: Washington
Set against the landscape of an economically ravaged logging town in Washington near a privately owned rain forest, David Guterson’s Our Lady of the Forest continues to demonstrate the author’s intimate connection with the American wilderness. The town of North Fork has “sawn down its adjoining forests with purposeful enthusiasm,” and now the only work unemployed loggers can get is at the local prison or the Punjabi-owned motel. Father Donald Collins, who runs the church, even has second thoughts about living and working here. The faithful remain few, and the jaded...
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