On the evening of February 12, 2026, the Community Room at the Bozeman Public Library was filled with people who had come to hear author, Elise Atchinson, discuss her latest novel, CRAZY MOUNTAIN, with journalist, Amanda Eggert,.
Winner of The Eludia Award, Crazy Mountain chronicles a rapidly changing place and community through the diverse and conflicting stories of the people who live in a fictional mountain valley in Montana over nearly half a century from the 1970s to the 20 teens. As the rural landscape transforms into subdivisions and McMansions, conflicts escalate between locals and newcomers, developers and environmentalists, the wealthy and the homeless. Librarian, Liz DeVries.