New West
Novelist Carrie La Seur recommends five books from writers unafraid to record the violence, racism, and poverty that are as much a part of the West as sagebrush and grand sunsets.
Carrie La Seur is an energy and environmental lawyer in Billings, Montana. She earned a doctorate in modern languages from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, a law degree from Yale, and a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Bryn Mawr College. She is a licensed private pilot who hikes, skis, and fishes the Montana wilderness with her family in her spare time.