Mark Spragg is the author of Where Rivers Change Direction, a memoir that won the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers award, and the novels The Fruit of Stone and An Unfinished Life, which was chosen by the Rocky Mountain News as the Best Book of 2004. Spragg will read from and sign his new novel Bone Fire ($25.95 Random House), a gripping story that contains, along with harsh truths and difficult consolation, moments of hilarity and surprise and beauty. No one writes more compellingly about the modern West than Mark Spragg, and in Bone Fire he is at the very height of his powers.
Laura Bell’s work has been published in several collections, and from the Wyoming Arts Council
she has received two literature fellowships as well as the Neltje Blanchan Memorial Award and the Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Award. Bell will discuss and sign her new book Claiming Ground: A Memoir ($24.95 Random House). Brimming with careful insight and written in a spare, radiant prose, Bell’s story is a heart-wrenching ode to the rough, enormous beauty of the Western landscape and the peculiar sweetness of hard labor, to finding oneself even in isolation, to a life formed by nature, and to the redemption of love, whether given or received.
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