A couple of friends and I are driving from LA up to Olympic National Park for 10 days next month. We’ll be stopping at golden gate, redwoods national park, and up the Oregon coast. I’d love to get a book recommendation to read during the trip. We will be camping so nothing too spooky and preferably something modern. Thanks for the help!
by wheezytheoso
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How about The Overstory by Richard Powers? It’s beautifully written and takes place exactly where you’re driving.
Here’s the summary from Wikipedia: “The book follows nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests. Through interwoven narratives spanning multiple generations, the novel explores themes of environmental activism, the interconnectedness of living things, and humanity’s relationship with the natural world.”
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Here in Oregon, Ken Kesey’s books are classics, including “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Sometimes A Great Notion”. Both were made into good movies.
This is a book that takes place in Oregon and features one of the national parks!
The Bogs of Surrendered Names, author Sergei Itzam Coiot (it’s on amazon)
Here’s the blurb:
“You can get lost in your own dreams, but what if you got lost in someone else’s?
“In *The Bogs of Surrendered Names*, Ronnie Vseslav is a 38-year old musician. The early death of his mother left him with a secret desire for family, consisting now only of an estranged brother. He wakes in a desert hotel, where, through a distortion of time and doors that open to lush imaginary worlds, he is caught in a triangle between the mysterious undead hotel owner the Captain and his beautiful equally mysterious maid Linda.
“Old grudges and grief manifest their world into a nightmarish painting, challenging the nature of reality and the malleability of memory and the mind. As the line between dreams and reality is broken, the secrets that lie behind this prison of paradise takes the novel to a soaring shattering climax that none in the hotel can escape.
*”The Bogs of Surrendered Names* is a surreal character and plot-driven novel that takes place in both the past and in the future, and examines loneliness, love and human perception of belonging.”
It’s only a little over 300 pgs, so not a big commitment, and it goes super FAST–page turner for sure!
Our lady of the forest by David Guterson . Excellent read set in the PNW.