In the early 1980s, before news travelled by algorithm and outrage, it travelled by people... and in Sultan, Washington, it travelled through Patrick Feeney.
Editor of the struggling Skykomish Register, Feeney lives a quiet life shaped by deadlines, late-night bars, and the steady rhythms of a small town that trusts him to tell its stories. But when a powerful regional newspaper moves into his territory, advertisers vanish, readers drift away, and the paper's future begins to crumble beneath his hands.
As a bitter newspaper war unfolds and a dangerous local secret surfaces, Feeney finds himself caught between loyalty and truth, community and survival. The stories he prints may save the town... or finish the paper forever.
Years later, speaking with the son who may follow him into journalism, Feeney looks back on the battles he fought and the people he could not protect, searching for meaning in a profession... and a world... that changed faster than anyone expected.
Set among the rain-washed rivers, forests, and mountain towns of the Pacific Northwest, Feeney's Part is a moving portrait of belonging, memory, and the fragile ties that hold communities together... and the men and women who try, imperfectly, to tell their truth.
