Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Karl Marlantes

Nancy Pearl sits down with author Karl Marlantes to discuss his new novel, Finland's political history, reading, and his writing process. "Deep River" is a family saga about Finnish immigrants who settle in a Pacific Northwest logging town in the early 1900s. Marlantes talks about his inspiration for the story, including his own childhood in a small town in Oregon, stories from his Finnish grandmother, Norse mythology, and the Kalevala, the national epic of Finland.