The Flicker of Old Dreams: A Novel

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 Roach’s Stiff, this is a novel about a young woman who comes most alive while working in her father’s mortuary in a small, forgotten Western town.

"The dead come to me vulnerable, sharing their s...