Gar LaSalle | Self-Publishing Review

An Interview with Gar LaSalle: Author of Widow Walk

Gar LaSalle is an award-winning historical fiction author and documentary filmmaker from Seattle, Washington. He holds degrees from California Institute of the Arts, Reed College in Portland, and Cornell University Medical School. A co-founder of the nation’s largest physician management company, LaSalle now teaches about survival in the business of medicine at Cornell, Columbia, and the University of Washington. When not welding massive sculptures or traversing the globe for book research, he can be found in his Maury Island studio in the Puget Sound area of Washington State.

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Inspired by true events, Widow Walk, […]

Review: Widow Walk (The Widow Walk Saga Book 1) by Gar LaSalle

Peeking into the past can provide valuable insight about the present, even if the two time periods and places seem like very different worlds. In Widow Walk by Gar LaSalle, readers are transported into the lives of bold settlers in the Pacific Northwest, determined survivors in the wilderness, who must face seemingly endless trials in their bid to make that land a home.

The brilliant component of this novel is that it doesn’t come across as distant historical fiction for the sake of escapism or novelty – it is packed with timeless life experiences, existential crises, and subjects of sovereignty […]