Join us in welcoming Sarah Birdsall to Fireside Books on Saturday, June 7th from 1:00-4:00pm. She will be signing copies of her newest book, Hill of Dead Horses.
About the book:
“Hill of Dead Horses is an expertly drawn piece of Alaskan historical noir, and Sarah Birdsall is truly a master of the form. Once again, she has delivered a book that holds readers from its opening words to its last. She’s one of our finest novelists, and her growing body of work is admirable.” -David James, Anchorage Daily News
In the early twentieth century a bear frightens a team of horses into plunging to their deaths from off a hill near a proposed railroad route through wilderness Alaska. In 1974 young Californians Thomas Findlay and Emily Wells dig post holes for a cabin on that very hill and unearth a human bone. The discovery shatters their struggle for stability and their attempt to start their lives over, propelling the couple toward their own tragedy as their story intertwines with one that unfolded in 1927, where the hill they hope to build on was the site of love, loss, and deadly violence.
About the author:
Sarah Birdsall has lived in Alaska most of her life and is the author of Wild Rivers, Wild Rose (University of Alaska Press, 2020), which was the 2021 WILLA Literary Award Winner in Historical Fiction, and the newly released Hill of Dead Horses (Epicenter Press, 2025) among others. A former award-winning journalist and a Rasmuson Foundation and Alaska Literary Award/Alaska State Council on the Arts award recipient, she has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alaska Anchorage and lives in her hometown of Talkeetna, Alaska.
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