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Local author to introduce new book at library event

The Riven Country of Senga Munro, a novel based in northeast Wyoming by local author Renée Carrier, is now available in both ebook and paperback. Touching on themes of love, loss and restoration, the book follows the story of Senga as she comes to terms with the death of her young daughter.

“In the aftermath, she learns what it means to be ‘other’ in the rural West. Senga can see what others can’t in the novel’s thread of magical realism,” says Carrier.

“An arrow shot through time by a nineteenth century Cheyenne scout jolts her awake from her sleepwalk of a life, but then s...