SPOKANE — Good things are often born from bad situations.
That was the case for Spokane native Eileen Garvin, whose new book, “Crow Talk,” sprouted from a visit to her family cabin on Lake Coeur d’Alene during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Garvin discussed the novel with Spokesman-Review outdoors columnist Ammi Midstokke at the newspaper’s Northwest Passages book club event Thursday night at the Steam Plant in downtown Spokane.
Garvin said she could handle shelter-in-place orders because the Oregon resident’s backyard was the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, where rivers and trails are plentiful.
Then, government officials “freaked out” and closed state parks and national forests. So, Garvin drove across the state and into Idaho to her family’s cabin.