RANGELY I Blue Mountain author Lou Dean knows how to write about hardship.
Dean has dealt with variations on the theme in nearly all of her books, from her young adult novel “Reaching for the Reins,” about a teenaged girl who must cope with the boy she loves being involved in a school shooting, to “Paw Prints in My Soul,” which explores her parents’ troubled marriage and divorce.
Like its predecessors, Lou Dean’s latest memoir,…