Canyon: Two Dunsmuir Stories

Paradise or trap? In the novella Canyon set in the 1950s the Hiller family lives in some of the most beautiful country in California on the Upper Sacramento River near Mt. Shasta. The father Frank is an intelligent but frustrated man without enough education to escape a blue-collar railroad job. The mother Connie and the three children live in the shadow of his anger just as their home town Dunsmuir lies in the shadow of the mountains. In the story Sump set a decade later the oldest son John gets his chance to leave - but it may already be too late. Fear has become a habit and how can he hope to love any other place as much as he loves this one?