# Starvation Heights

by Gregg Olsen (1997)

**Verdict:** Stayed with me — It lodged, whether or not you'd inflict it on a friend.

**Who I'd hand it to:** People from the NorthWest

_print · finished 2024-06-24_

## Fingerprint

Positions between two named poles. Neither pole is the good end.

- Place: far toward "the place is the book"
- Moral weight: far toward "pressing a case"
- Cleverness: far toward "told straight"
- Lift: far toward "left me heavier"
- Friction: toward "reads itself"
- Economy: between "compressed" and "stretched"
- Clarity: far toward "easy to hold"

_Scored from memory, some time after reading._

## How it read

How much I wanted to keep reading, at each stage.

- Beginning: couldn’t stop
- Middle: steady
- End: couldn’t stop
- Afterwards: rose (better in retrospect)

## Review

This is a haunting book, it was cool that it reflected Puget Sound life and specifically Port Orchard, my home town. While reading the book, I spent some time on FB and Google maps doing some detective work about my childhood. It captured my imagination around "can ground be haunted, or is it just dirt?"

Not a feel good book, but worth reading.

Tags: Non-fiction, Port Orchard, Puget Sound

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