![]() ![]() This quiet passion extant in Guterson shines through in Cedars. It brings out his pale green eyes which still search the water. "What sustains me is to be with my family and to write."Īmid laughing people in tropical colors, the author wears an olive jacket. "It is such an incredible honor," he says, but what coaxes forth his first smile is the thought of returning home to his wife and four children. ![]() Guterson, 39, received the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award for Snow Falling on Cedars. Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need." "And I've been in cities endlessly for the past five or six weeks on this book tour. "I'm not an urban person," he confesses in a crowded outdoor restaurant. David Guterson peers out at Miami's lapis Biscayne Bay as though straining to see something else-an island off Washington's dark Puget Sound, his home and the place of his haunting novel, Snow Falling on Cedars. ![]()
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