Evelyn in Transit by David Guterson, in conversation with Jess Walter

Full of surprising humor and luminosity, Evelyn in Transit delivers much-needed insight and compassion about humanity's strivings for transcendence, and what it might mean to "live the right way."

Guterson is a familiar literary presence in the Pacific Northwest, but his reach extends far beyond it. His 1994 novel Snow Falling on Cedars—winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year—was translated into 26 languages, sold more than four million copies and was adapted into a feature film in 1999.