On NPR’s Morning Edition today, Lynn Neary interviewed Jonahan Evison, His novel, West of Here, is told from the perspectives of settlers in Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula and modern-day residents. How did Evison do his research?

…by poking around in the local libraries of towns up and down the Olympic Peninsula: “I found that at all these little libraries in Port Angeles and Sequim and Shelton and all these peninsula towns, you can find all these wonderful little tape-bound manuscripts. Some of them are 15 pages long, some of them are 100 pages long, but they’re personalized, first-person accounts of frontier living.”

West of Here Jonathan Evison Retail Price: $24.95 Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Algonquin Books – (2011-02-15) ISBN / EAN: 1565129520 / 9781565129528

Audio; Highbridge; 9781615731169; $39.95

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