How to Manage a Crisis

What do you do when you face a crisis in your personal life or in your community? Matt Witt reviews two novels, Alibi Creek by Bev Magennis and the Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin, about women in western towns who start out trying to deal with personal and political problems on their own, but learn they need friends, family and community to make the changes they want – both for themselves and for the towns where they live.