Ash Davidson
Auteur de Damnation Spring
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- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 479
- Popularité
- #51,492
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 27
- ISBN
- 11
- Langues
- 1
This was such a good book. It started out slow - Colleen has just lost her baby at 5 months (?) pregnant. She wants to try again, and Rich wants her to stop risking her health. Rich has gone ahead and put their savings toward a piece of land he has always wanted - and he hasn’t told her or put her name on the loan.
There’s a lot about logging - especially how dangerous it is. Rich’s dad was a logger and died early in Rich’s life. A close friend Lark took over as a father figure, and he is crippled in a logging accident.
Colleen had a boyfriend - part native Daniel, who has returned to the area to study the effects of logging (and the spraying that’s part of it) on the water and the fish. The old growth trees attract attention from ‘hippies’ who stage protests. A skull is found on about-to-be-logged land that halts all work for a search and a hearing.
So there’s that conflict. The loggers who want to protect their livelihood. The patriarchal lumber company. The protesters. And then the babies born with birth defects and the miscarriages. The deformed deer fetuses found in the woods. Bees and flowers killed by the spraying. Nosebleeds all the time.
Rich and Colleen come back together but the trouble outside their marriage starts - which side are you on? The land Rich owns can only be logged when the adjacent property is logged - until then it brings in nothing to pay off the mortgage. But there are landslides after roads are cut, and the hillsides are cleared. The tide begins to turn although the violence gets worse.
There isn’t a solution or a cure. The ending is sad. There are a lot of characters, and a lot of side stories, and it’s all very vivid.… (plus d'informations)