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On a night of torrential rain, a warrior appears near the Colombia River, where the Chinook people thrived before the hydroelectric dams came and changed their entire way of life. He has come to reclaim the river, to return it to its original majesty.
Soon after, government employees are found murdered with elaborate harpoons. As the body count grows, Francine Smohalla, a government marine biologist of Chinook and white descent, embarks on her own investigation of the bizarre murders. As she desperately tries to find the killer and prevent any other murders, she finds herself spinning in the convergence of ethnic hatreds between Indians and whites, an unlikely relationship with a kindred spirit whose troubled life has led him to contemplate terrorism and apocalypse, an ancient prophecy about the return of her beloved salmon, and the giant dams on the Columbia that loom large and as seemingly immovable as the mountains themselves. A River Out of Eden is a gripping literary thriller straight from today’s headlines set against the uniquely American contradictions of the Pacific Northwest.
- Sales Rank: #1407421 in Books
- Published on: 2002-07-09
- Released on: 2002-07-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .77" w x 5.18" l, .61 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 384 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Like the Y2K apocalypse that never happened, this doomsday thriller goes bust. Hockenberry, Dateline NBC correspondent and author of Moving Violations (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award), tries to cram too many reportorial themes into his bulging narrative: the displacement of Pacific Northwest Chinook tribes, the questionable merits of salmon hatcheries and federal dams, the dangers of nuclear power and the threat posed by white supremacist fringe groups. There's a plot buried under the mountain of issues, but it's actually more of a highly convoluted premise. A Chinook warrior named Charley Shen-oh-way, long assumed dead, has begun slaughtering employees of a federal salmon hatchery to avenge the government's appropriation of sacred Indian ground. His half-Chinook daughter Francine, director of the hatchery, intuits Charley's involvement in the savage murders and withholds incriminating evidence, aided by her wildly improbable love interest, Duke McCurdy, a white supremacist radio provocateur with a secret heart of gold. Meanwhile, Jack Charnock, an unstable weapons researcher who's at last perfected a portable implosion device, has just been terminated from nearby Hanford Nuclear Reservation, and isn't happy. These and other unsympathetic, one-dimensional characters link up implausibly to announce the novel's themes, even at the most intimate moments ("They have always betrayed me, my mother's eyes," she whispered. "Hate betrays me," Duke whispered back. "Who can escape his tribe?") Even Francine's semicomatose white mother stays on point, robotically intoning the Icelandic word for "big flood." Hockenberry, a one-time radio reporter in the Pacific Northwest, has enthusiastically researched the region, but this silly, pretentious novel doesn't show off either writer or culture to best advantage. Agent, Gloria Loomis. (May 17) Forecast: Hockenberry's first book, Moving Violations, was a national bestseller, but as a memoir, its sales bounced high off his fame as an NPR commentator and TV reporter who's also a paraplegic. Some attention will accrue to his first novel because of his continued media presence, and blurbs from Bill McKibben and William Dietrich will draw in browsers, but when all is said and done, he's not much of a thriller writer and, ultimately, sales will reflect this.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
In the center of this timely and topical work of ecofiction are the nusuh, Chinook for "salmon." As the salmon are endangered by the multiple dams of the Columbia River, so are the Native people and their traditions. Francine Smohalla is a marine biologist in charge of the salmon hatchery at the Bonneville Dam complex. Half-white and half-Chinook, she experiences the stress of living in two worlds. Complementing and escalating her emotional difficulties are four men who want to "free the river": her father, Charley Shen-oh-way, who has returned after being thought dead for 30 years and who is now killing people; Jack Charnock, a superannuated but brilliant weapons designer from the notorious Hanford Nuclear Reservation; Roy McCurdy, a virulent Aryan Nation type; and Roy's son Duke, who was raised to share his father's beliefs but falls in love with Francine. The plot is complex, the action violent and bizarre, the psychology believable, and the climax frightening and surreal. This is a strong first novel by a well-known journalist whose autobiographical Moving Violations was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Recommended for all public libraries. Jack Hafer, Chesterfield Cty. P.L., VA
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Journalist and memoirist Hockenberry's first novel is an intelligent, capacious, slightly gothic, and altogether provocative thriller set in the dramatically beautiful but culturally divisive Pacific Northwest. The Columbia River, once wild and gleaming with salmon, has been harnessed by dams and poisoned by the Hanford Nuclear Reservation; now it's the site of a series of ritualized murders with an unmistakable Chinook theme. Francine Smohalla, a marine biologist and living symbol of the region's ecological conflicts as the granddaughter of the white man who built the Grand Coulee Dam and the daughter of a Chinook Indian dead-set against the white man's ways, discovers the first corpse, and meets Duke McCurdy, the son of rabid white supremacists, over the second. Their unlikely romance is set against unrelentingly high suspense as a flood threatens to overwhelm the dams; a disgruntled, mystically inclined nuclear chemist completes unauthorized work on a portable nuclear bomb; Duke's hate-crazed father takes on an Indian-run casino; the tribe plans a salmon festival; and Hanford's head of security, a black man enamored of Jimi Hendrix, catches on to a catastrophic terrorist plot. This isn't a perfect novel, but any kinks are easily forgotten in the torrent of Hockenberry's imaginative plot, ardent prose, knowledgeable passion for the land, and free-flowing compassion. Donna Seaman
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Good, could have been better...
By Lina McLane
This novel may not be up to the same level of quality as John Hockenberry's other book, Moving Violations (his memoir), but I still enjoyed it. He is a great writer, period, even if his storytelling skills aren't totally polished.
The best aspect of the book for me was the broad cast of characters who, we gradually find out, are all connected. I'm always a fan of ensemble casts. (I'm also a sucker for forbidden romance, so there's that.) The main thing I think could have improved the story would be to have gone more in-depth into the many different story lines. If the book were maybe a hundred pages longer, it really could have fleshed out and been more intriguing.
The moral of all this is that John Hockenberry really needs to publish more books. At the very least, he has great potential as a novelist.
One other thing I would like to address is all the negative reviews saying that the author didn't do enough research or had the geography all wrong. I don't have much knowledge of the dam system or wild salmon, so I can't attest to that, but I am from Washington myself and as far as I could tell, the geography was perfectly fine. It's true that there is a community called Celilo in Oregon, not Washington. But seeing as the Celilo in the book is based around a fictional casino, I don't find it that hard to believe that such a community could have sprung up (horrors!) _across the river_.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Waters of Forgiveness
By SassySoutherner
This was a very well written first novel. The stream of consciousness technique used by Hockenberry may be more difficult to grasp for readers who do not like to think too much. This novel demands deep thought, and awakens us to look closely at issues most of us prefer to ignore. Bigotry, Alcoholism, Suicide, Spirituality, and Greed all swirl in the reader's mind much like the water of the river. The flow of thought addresses all of these issues, but leaves no answers. Hockenberry is asking us to each find our own answers, and find our own paths just like the river that he writes about.
I particularly liked the fact that some common misconceptions about Native Americans were addressed. Today, many people are angry that Native Americans have what they think are special rights. I hear people complain about the money they lose at casinos owned by tribes, yet they choose to go there and spend their money. These same people complain about reservation land, because they have no understanding of what it is about. Reservation land was placed under trust status in order to protect it in 1934 under the Wheeler-Howard Act. When land was first alloted to individual tribal memebers, much of it was lost. Trust status exempted it from taxation, and it could not be sold or leased without prior approval from the BIA. Native Americans were declared citizens in 1924, but they had restrictive voting rights and were denied state welfare and social benefits until 1968, when a special Indian Rights Section was included in the Civil Rights Bill, which guaranteed equal citizenship rights for American Indians. This same bill also gave legal jurisdiction over reservations to the to the tribes.
Too many people associate "Indians" with alcoholism, ignorance, and poverty. Hockenberry takes us past these misconceptions, showing both the good and the ugly. He also explains clearly what it means to be of mixed blood, as many Native Americans are today. Often they feel they must choose between being white and being Indian, as they are not allowed to be both. Truly being a Native American, means understanding their culture, history, and spirituality. Ancestry is not enough alone; it must be respected and learned.
In this story, both the salmon and the characters struggle to find their way, just as those before them did. The thoughtful reader will question their own thoughts and actions in the past and think of the relevance of their decisions in life both in the past and in the future.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Intricate, brainy novel on complexities of human beliefs.
By K. L Sadler
This first novel of Hockenberry is promoted as a thriller or a mystery. I think both of those designations do not do justice to this book. This book demands that the reader think, and it is hardly light and banal reading. As another reviewer has stated, the author uses 'stream of conciousness' which was very difficult for me to understand at first. There are so many characters involved with such different backgrounds, values, and belief systems...that at first it was extremely difficult to follow. However, this is one of those books that the reader must stick with and ultimately not only is it worth it, but after closing the book when finished, the mind is racing and wondering "Is this a real possibility?"
Hockenberry has the background as a journalist to acquire information about subjects that many writers do not have the ability to do. He takes full advantage of this to weave a story with a basis in reality that is shocking in its telling. Like most people, I know a little bit about all the topics he raises: the rights of Native Americans, our historical past concerning nuclear arms and nuclear energy, the prejudices that exists against people and their beliefs, the all too real tendency of corporations and government to discard their loyal workers after years of grueling and thankless work, and the environmental impact of our country's energy needs. This book greatly expanded my understanding of many of these topics, and piqued my interest in both the Northwest and the Native Americans from that area (I immediately went to the web to look up the dams on the Columbia River). To me this is a sign of a great book and a good writer. When people are moved to find out more about subject matters because the author has made it so interesting, then the author has more then succeeded.
I hope that Hockenberry continues to write, and continues to provide us with books that make us stop and think. Definitely worth the time and the money... Karen Sadler, Science Education, University of Pittsburgh
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