Description: From one of California's most celebrated writers comes a generous and deeply absorbing novel, as filled with warmth and the hope of second chances as the land it describes.

When Anna Torelli returns from New York to the vineyards of northern California to be with her dying mother, she never expects that the trip will change her life. But when she meets the fiercely independent Arthur Atwater, her father's vineyard manager, she is pulled back into her childhood, and into a love affair that rouses her as nothing has before. Among the others are Anna's aging father, Victor, the son of Italian immigrants who first planted the vineyard in the 1890s, and his foreman, Antonio Lopez, a Mexican immigrant whose marital troubles deepen when his cousin Omar Perez conics to work the vineyard harvest. Carson Valley is a masterful work of social realism -- as insightful about modern love as it is about rural life in the grip of change.

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