A novel of love and destruction, Snow Falling on Cedars is satiated with underlying plots and morally exigent themes. ... Murder shortly becomes a possibility, and the unforgotten love affair between a white man and the wife of the accused Kabuo Miyamo seems to rise once again to the surface of an already nervous ocean of underlying conflict contiguous to the American and Japanese-American races. ... Credited with instigating the versatility of the novel are countless trivial and more importantly three prevailing subplots: interracial tension, a love affair forsaken by the race gradient and ob...

• Word Count: 950
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Graduate