Snow Falling on Cedars | Social Concerns
Snow Falling On Cedars is a romance, a mystery, and a courtroom drama. By combining all three forms, David Guterson lets us see the corrosive impact social injustice has on a small Washington State fishing community and what heavy prices individuals paid for the color of their skin. Snow Falling On Cedars, winner of the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, illuminates a dark time in recent American history, when hard-working Japanese- Americans—immigrants and the children of immigrants who wanted only those freedoms and rights all American citizens are guaranteed—were...
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