Alaska author Don Rearden will speak 4 p.m. Friday at the Haines Borough Public Library.
Rearden is an associate professor of English at the University of Alaska Anchorage. “The Raven’s Gift” is his debut novel, published in 2013.
According to his website, the novel “is a post-apocalyptic thriller about new teachers arriving in an isolated Yup’ik Eskimo village that gets hit with a deadly epidemic. After John Morgan’s wife dies, he must make a 1,000-mile…
