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Colleen and Rich Gundersen are raising their young son, Chub, on the rugged California coast. It’s 1977, and life in their Pacific Northwest logging town isn’t what it used to be. For generations, the community has lived and breathed timber; now that way of life is threatened . . .
An essential novel for our times told in prose as clear as a spring-fed creek, Damnation Spring is an intimate, compassionate portrait of a family whose bonds are tested, the transcending and enduring power of love, and a community clinging to a vanishing way of life amid the perils of environmental degradation.
Redwoods have been plundered by humans, damaged in fires and taken down in floods, but they’re also incredibly resilient, and as characters in Davidson’s graceful rendering remind us, humans are equally resilient. After great loss, they, too, can keep growing." -- The New York Times Book Review