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elizaboothy 's review for:
Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson
This was good... ish, until it wasn't. The writing was strong, but it's bloated with too much description of things that don't matter and there's a weird stream of sexism in both the overwrought descriptions (I sure learned a lot about the male characters' wives hair and breasts) and the "main" character is basically an incel who uses romantic rejection to justify his racism and unethical decisions. I'd love to hear this story written by a person of Japanese-American descent because there are some strong historical lessons here, but Guterson doesn't quite get there (especially under his '90s lens).