Our Lady of The Forest: Summary and book reviews of Our Lady of The Forest by David Guterson, plus links to an excerpt from Our Lady of The Forest and a biography of David Guterson.

In a suspenseful and emotionally charged story of faith at a contemporary crossroads, the bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars offers a provocative new novel about a teenage girl who claims to see the Virgin Mary.

Media Reviews

Kirkus Reviews Sharp and incisive without a trace of either cynicism or credulity a clever take on a familiar fable of redemption.   Publishers Weekly Searching for the miraculous in the mundane, this ambitious and satisfying work builds vivid characters and trenchant storytelling into a serious and compassionate look at the moral quandaries of modern life.   Library Journal Posters, reading group guides, and a 16-city author tour-Guterson is getting what you would surely expect of a highly recommended novel.

Recent Reader Reviews

Rated of 5 by Laurita Fernandez
Insult
In the beginning of the book, at first I found it entertaining. On page 83 the first paragraph someone shouted, a football comment these guys better get a "nigger" a running back like all the good teams got these days. Continued on, If...   Read More

Rated of 5 by David Sallen
No sense of value

Rated of 5 by NAVAL LANGA
The narrator has taken pain to depict the life of a ptagonist which comes from the class of the people having colourful dreams in the eyes and the hard realities on the road. Every reader wanyts to be idintified with such charecter in which he/she...   Read More

Rated of 5 by marian hunter
Our Lady of The Forest is a diamond amongst dross. The writer, David Guterson, a wonderful wordsmith and talented storyteller, with a keen insight into the restless fears in every one of us. I recognised every one of his carefully drawn...   Read More

Rated of 5 by boston reader
First I thought: who wants to read about an asthmatic, mushroom-picking waif masturbating in a rain sodden glen next to a god forsaken logging town? But then, Guterson pulls you into a Marian legend of lost souls: Ann Holmes, the visionary...   Read More

Rated of 5 by Anonymous
Try as I may I couldn't care about any of these characters. Most books have a good guy to like or side with!
One needs a dictionary on the side while reading and someone should tell Guteson about the invention of quotation marks.

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