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Laura Pritchett
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Pritchett is the winner of the PEN USA Award for Fiction, the Colorado Book Award, the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, and others, and has published over 100 essays and short stories in magazines (including O Magazine, High Country News, 5280, The Sun, Orion, and others)Her most recent essay for the New York Times’ Modern Love section was the top emailed story during the week of its publicationHer 2014 novel Stars Go Blue was the winner of the High Plains Literary Award and a finalist for the WILLA, the Colorado Book Award, and the Mountains & Plains bookseller award
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On Hell's Bottom Ranch, a section of land below the Front Range, there are women like Renny who prefer a «little Hell swirled with their Heaven» and men like Ben, her husband, who's «gotten used to smoothing over Renny's excesses.» There is a daughter who maybe plays it too safe and a daughter plagued by only «half-wanting» what life has to offer. The ranch has been the site of births and deaths of both cattle and children, as well as moments of amazing harmony and clear vision.
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A supermarket clerk in a small dusty town, 22-year-old Libby is full of dreams but lacks the means to pursue them. When her younger sister Tess becomes pregnant, Libby convinces her not to have an abortion by promising to raise the child herself. But then Tess takes off after the baby is born and Libby finds that her new role puts her dreams that much further away. Her already haphazard life becomes ever more chaotic. The baby's father, a Christian rodeo rider, suddenly demands custody. Libby loses her job, her boyfriend abandons her, and her own mother harps on how stupid she was to make that promise to Tess. More than a story of a single mother overcoming obstacles, Sky Bridge is a painfully honest, complex novel that leaves readers with a fresh understanding of what it means to inhabit a world in which dreams die, and are sometimes reborn.
