Read Matt Love's spirited (does Matt Love write any other way?!?) paean to the novels of Oregonian Don Berry on the Powell's blog. The trilogy Trask, Moontrap and To Build a Ship, all set in pioneer-era Oregon, were reprinted a few year
s ago by Oregon State University Press. Love asks: “Has any writer in American literature summed up our collective national sickness any better?”
We also love this quote, from Berry: “In Oregon after two days of rain it seems as though it has been raining since the world began, and you cannot remember the last time you saw the sun.”