NPR listeners and UNP fans, be sure to tune in to Fresh Air this evening to hear book critic Maureen Corrigan’s rave review of Gabrielle Burton’s memoir/biography, Searching for Tamsen Donner, published last year by the University of Nebraska Press. In the review, which also highlights Burton’s novel about Donner Party matriarch Tamsen Donner, titled Impatient with Desire, Corrigan calls Searching for Tamsen Donner “extraordinary” and a “must read.” Pretty high praise from one of this blogger's favorite radio programs.  A short excerpt from the review follows: Burton writes about a shoestring-budget trip she took in 1977, along with her … Continue reading Searching for Tamsen Donner reviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air