&lt;p&gt;If you&#039;re going to borrow, borrow big. Back when he was teaching English at Bainbridge High School, before his 1994 breakthrough novel, &lt;em&gt;Snow Falling on Cedars&lt;/em&gt;, David Guterson surely graded a lot of papers about Oedipus. You know, the smart but arrogant fellow who accidently kills his dad...