The Flicker of Old DreamsHigh 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 Smileys A Thousand Acres and the technical clarity of Mary Roachs Stiff, this is a novel about a young woman who comes most alive while working in her fathers mortuary in a small, forgotten Western town. \"The dead

and an electrical station’s worth of crossed wires

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and exact her vengeance

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