Reading: Susan Henderson

High Plains Book Award finalist in both the Fiction and Women category reads from The Flicker of Old Dreams.
The novel is an intimate and powerful exploration of love and loss in a small town in Montana, told from the perspective of a lonely young woman who comes most alive while working in her father’s mortuary.
The Flicker of Old Dreams won the Western Writers of America Spur Award, in the category of Best Western Contemporary Novel, and was chosen as an Honor Book for the Montana Book Award. Henderson is a lifetime member of the National Book Critics Circle and the NAACP. She lives in New York.