explained it is being presented in the past tense. So a large portion of the novel is written in the past tense. The other parts of the novel are in the present tense which is taking place mostly in a courtroom where there is a case taking place about a potential homicide of a fisherman out at sea. The deceased fisherman is Carl Heine. The suspect is Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American who had arrangements to buy a part of Carl Heine's strawberry farm. Kabuo Miyamoto is Hatsue's husband. All evidence leads to Kabuo as being guilty in the murder of Carl Heine, but information from an unlikely source proves him innocent. The information came from a juror, Ishmael Chambers; Hatsue's childhood love. The author of the book did an excellent job with detail, suspense, and showing in detail, the events leading up to the innocence of Kabuo. When I was reading the book I was bored with the
             ...