Love and Other Moral Dilemmas
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson is a novel comprising murder, mystery, love, loss, history and courtroom drama. This novel is set in the winter of 1954 on San Piedro Island, Washington, during a murder trial that affects everyone on the island.
Carl Heine Jr., a prominent fisherman, is found drowned. No one can believe that such an experienced fisherman would simply drown, it must have been murder. Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese resident, is arrested and soon put on trial. This trial brings out the prejudice and bitterness remaining in the small-town residents, after World War II.
During the war, Kabuo was sent to a Japanese internment camp, along with the other Japanese islanders. While in the camp, Kabuo married Hatsue, who was the childhood sweetheart of Ishmael Chambers.
Ishmael however, has never recovered from losing Hatsue and is still dealing with his own tragic experiences from the war. The trial brings forth many emotions that Ishmael thought he had left behind. Ishmael now runs the town newspaper and his investigation of the drowning begins to reveal the truth. Suddenly he holds the happiness of Kabuo and Hatsue in his hands. Will he choose to do the right thing of act upon his selfish desires?
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