Balsamroot: A Memoir

Mary Clearman Blew. Penguin Books, $15 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-14-017624-7

Blew follows up her award-winning All but the Waltz with this memoir focusing on the women who helped settle Montana, especially her Aunt Imogene. (July)

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