East of the Mountains

A man plans a final journey into the Western wilderness in this “wonderful” novel by the New York Times –bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars ( The Miami Herald ).   Mid-October is harvest time in the Columbia Basin of central Washington, a rich apple- and pear-growing region. Ben Givens, recently widowed, is a retired heart surgeon, once admired for his steadiness of hand, his precision, and his endurance. But now he has been diagnosed with terminal colon cancer. Ben has never been