JANA RICHMAN
JANA RICHMAN, a sixth-generation Utahn, was born and raised in Utah’s west desert. She writes about issues that threaten to destroy the essence of the West: overpopulation, overdevelopment, rapidly dwindling water aquifers, stupidity, ignorance, arrogance, and greed. She also writes about passion, beauty, and love. She is the author of the memoir Riding in the Shadows of Saints: A Woman’s Story of Motorcycling the Mormon Trail and the novel The Last Cowgirl, winner of the Willa Award for contemporary fiction. She lives in Escalante, Utah, with her husband, writer and transpersonal therapist Steve Defa.
BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
THE ORDINARY TRUTH
A Novel
When Nell Jorgensen buried her husband after a hunting accident in 1975, she buried a piece of herself, her relationship with her daughter, and more than one secret along with him. Now, thirty-six years later, her granddaughter, Cassie, intends to unearth those secrets and repair those relationships, but she’s unprepared for what she finds. Set in the sparse and beautiful landscape of Nevada’s Spring Valley and Schell Creek Mountains, yet steeped in the realities of the colliding urban and rural worlds of the West, award-winning author Jana Richman brings us an emotional journey of love, loss, and family.
“With tough women and sensitive men, desert-dry humor, hot-springs sensuality, heartbreaking secrets, escalating suspense, and a 360-degree perspective on the battle over water, Richman’s twenty-first-century western is riveting, wise, and compassionate.”
—BOOKLIST (starred review)