Damnation Spring

Probably the best novel I"'ll read this year. It"'s about work and love and characters who ring true. By the time I was 50 pages in I couldn"'t put it down. Can"'t stop thinking about it"' Stephen King*For generations, Rich Gundersen"'s family has made a living felling giant redwoods on California"'s rugged coast. It"'s treacherous work, and though his son, Chub, wants nothing more than to step into his father"'s boots, Rich longs for a bigger future for him. Colleen just wants a brother or sister for Chub, but she"'s losing hope. There is so much that she and Rich don"'t talk about these days - including her suspicions that there is something very wrong at the heart of the forest on which their community is built. When Rich is offered the opportunity to buy a plot of timber which borders Damnation Grove, he leaps at the chance - without telling Colleen. Soon the Gundersens find themselves on opposite sides of a battle that threatens to rip their town apart. Can they find a way to emerge from this together?