The Sky Fisherman A Novel [Paperback]

The lives of young Culver, his twice-married mother, and his charismatic uncle Jake have been always overshadowed by the death of Culver's father in a fishing accident. When a suspicious fire destroys the town mill and three murders occur, Culver is engulfed by the dangers he finds lurking in the place he'd come to call home. Love, death, coming of age, and Native American spiritual beliefs flow together with the forces of nature in this novel.

Craig Lesleyis a lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest. He has received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award for bothWinterkilland forThe Sky Fisherman.He is also the author ofRiver SongandStorm Rider. He lives in Portland Oregon with his wife and two daughters.

City boy though I am, I fell into Craig's Lesley's wonderfully told story as though it were my own. . . . It reminded me once again of just how welcome you can feel in the midst of a novel. Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio

An accomplished book. Lesley's biblical, metaphoric invocations of fire and water are powerfully drawn . . . Unsentimental, vigorous and compassionate. Valerie Miner, The Boston Sunday Globe

An exquisite novel that holds the voices of the river and its people in perfect balance. It is a story that stays with you and grows between silences. Mr. Lesley is an empathetic force in fiction. Terry Tempest Williams

A complex and vivid and surprisingly funny book, a book I greatly admire. Robert Olen Butler

An exquisitely delineated map of America. All of our history is encompassed in its pages. The author retells the ancient struggle between whites and Native Americans for cherished territory. And as in any great American novel, a young man comes to terms with his own flawed heritage. Carolyn See

Craig Lesley leaves crimes unresolved inThe Sky Fishermanand concentrates on something larger--