Our sad protagonist, recovering from injuries and a heroin habit he began in Vietnam, becomes a Fish and Wildlife officer in very rural Harney County, Oregon. One of the largest in size and smallest in population counties in the US.
In Oregon on the Far East side of the state, next to Idaho and Nevada, Harney County is full of migratory birds, snakes, wild mustangs and a cult similar to the eastern cult that inhabited and tried to take over Antelope City Oregon in the 1970s.
But it’s 1968, in the middle of the Vietnam War and just before Nixon Is elected.
The Sorrow Hand is a an excellent book and I thought the narration by Steve Marvel superior to the narrator in the Second and Third books. It always annoys me when producers change narrator midstream.
The book brings back a lot of 1968 to me, though I was living in San Francisco at the time, not Oregon. Still the beauty of eastern Oregon along with the wildlife and ‘still the old west’ attitude that continues to be part of eastern Oregon prevails.
Well worth a listen. Ok for young teens but probably boring for preteens it’s a food family road trip book.