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High Plains Book Award Winner for Fiction * Western Writers of America Spur Award Winner for Best Contemporary Western Novel * WILLA Literary Award Winner in Contemporary Fiction * Montana Book Award Honor Book
With the quiet precision of Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres and the technical clarity of Mary…
Why read it?
3 authors picked The Flicker of Old Dreams as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a beautifully written book with a cast of characters who, while not totally lovable/likable, fit so deeply into the storyline and their harsh environment that they (and the book) is fabulous. The setting is a small town dying on the Montana plains - and the writing makes you FEEL it.
Henderson’s a prize winner and she should be on the top of every reader’s list! Here, she creates a protagonist like no other: a mortician Mary Crampton, living in a stomach-cramp of a town.
What’s surprising and wonderful is that she loves her work, and treats it as art—and I was so fascinated to learn about it. As her town crumbles away, a young man enters her life—a man whose brother was killed in a grain mill. As the two grow closer, the town becomes angrier, making Gal take new stock of the life she has—and the life she could…
From Caroline's list on hidden gems that won’t stay hidden for long.
About an odd woman, raised in a Mortuary/Funeral Home on the brutal western plains.
She likes her lonely life, living with her alcoholic father. Until she has her first spark of connection when another misfit from her past returns home, and she must decide. Stay in stilted safety or take a chance for happiness in an unknown future.
Brilliantly written with setting as a character, I relived the emotions of being faced with life-changing chance.
From Laura's list on women at the edge of change.
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