Wyoming is the story with this visit by two excellent writers who call the state home. Mark Spragg, who has been this way before with his award-winning memoir, Where Rivers Change Directions, and his novels The Fruit of Stone and An Unfinished Life, is here tonight with a new novel, Bone Fire (Knopf). A murder in a Wyoming town methlab sets certain things in motion, the unfolding of mysteries of a larger dimension. "A tribute to the human state and an outstanding work ... Not one word is out of place, and each and every character is well drawn and intensely believable ... This 'bone fire' is in fact the burning we call life, symbolizing our shared pain as human beings." - Henry Bankhead, Library Journal. From Cody, Wyoming, comes Laura Bell with a remarkable nonfiction debut, Claiming Ground: A Memoir (Knopf). "First, it is the language you notice: phrases, whole passages composed with the musical authority of psalms. Then it is the evocation of place, Wyoming rising from these pages as actual as a wild perfume. But, start to finish, it is her honesty that keeps you up in the night, wondering at the frailty of what it means to be human and glad and brave and, at times, broken." - Mark Spragg.