Subtitled "The Journal of An Understanding Heart," the book was celebrated as a work of wonder and imagination, if not genius. "The Story of Opal" was first published in 1920, when Opal was nearly 23. Every time the name of Opal Whiteley surfaces again, more and more people discover what many have been quietly felt for some time: Her diary just might be an American classic. But more than that, it's a story of faith, of what we believe and perceive to be true. It's a story also of loneliness, tragedy and death, the hard life in rural Oregon at the century's turn. It's a story of innocence and wonder, of a young girl in a young land.
The Pacific Northwest, long known as the home of dreamers, geniuses and eccentrics, gave us a little girl from a logging camp who grew up to become one of the most notorious literary sensations of the 1920s - on the basis of one book that was out of print within a year. THE SAGA OF Opal Whiteley is one of the oddest stories to come out of an odd land.
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