Let the Day Perish

Christian Petersen beautifully reins in the confusion and displacement of a diminishing band of men facing the daily spectre of an unforgiving land, men enslaved to the grind of the sawmill, hunkered on bar stools, high in the saddle of a John Deere, or wild behind the wheel speeding down dirt roads to the Fraser. Here are fathers, brothers, lovers in search of forsaken children, bygone loves, and memories long faded in the wash of fast-running streams and fire-light. Here are the unpardoned, raging against what they might have been, what they are, and where their pasts have led them. Yet Petersen's characters hollow out a quiet dignity, gentle in the silent truth that they are small in the face of pain--and of change.