katecrego 's review for:

The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest by Timothy Egan

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I bought this book when I thought my life was taking me in the direction of the PNW and it took me almost exactly two years to finish it - now back in Montana, it made me homesick for the coast where I grew up and inspired plans for my own writing projects. I never knew of the history of worker co-ops in lumber mills (and not nearly enough about IWW organizing in logging camps); the pre-Pollan food writing in Central Washington's nascent wine country is beautiful, as are the tales about salmon (because that's really the core of any book about the Northwest). The book itself is nearly 30 years old and could certainly use an update, but Timothy Egan's narrative prose still holds strong.