by Craig Lesley
There's something to be said for reading fiction set in places you know, among people you recognize. Lesley's "Winterkill" about a father and son struggling to find connection, both Native Americans from the Northwest, was inspired and unique.
In "River Song" the same characters are back, traveling from Warm Springs to Yakima to Pendleton, making a few bucks fighting fires, fishing and working in apple orchards. It's a hard life and seems as if it would drive anyone down but most of the characters in River Song persevere, not knowing any other kind of life.
The Indians and the rednecks, the tourists and the farmers, the yuppies and the truckers -- it all seems so familiar and Lesley has painting a stirring and accurate portrait.
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