Narrow river, wide sky : a memoir
(Book)
Author
Published
Portland, Oregon : Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts, [2017].
Format
Book
Status
Forks - Nonfiction (Adult)
978.827 FORREST
1 available
978.827 FORREST
1 available
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Forks - Nonfiction (Adult) | 978.827 FORREST | Available |
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LC Subjects
Colorado Plateau -- Biography.
Coming of age -- Colorado -- Mancos.
Eagle River Region (Colo.) -- Biography.
Forrester, Jenny -- Childhood and youth.
Forrester, Jenny -- Family.
Forrester, Jenny.
Girls -- Colorado -- Mancos -- Biography.
Mancos (Colo.) -- Biography.
Mancos (Colo.) -- Rural conditions.
Young women -- Colorado -- Mancos -- Biography.
Coming of age -- Colorado -- Mancos.
Eagle River Region (Colo.) -- Biography.
Forrester, Jenny -- Childhood and youth.
Forrester, Jenny -- Family.
Forrester, Jenny.
Girls -- Colorado -- Mancos -- Biography.
Mancos (Colo.) -- Biography.
Mancos (Colo.) -- Rural conditions.
Young women -- Colorado -- Mancos -- Biography.
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Published
Portland, Oregon : Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts, [2017].
Physical Desc
pages cm
Street Date
1703
Language
English
Notes
Description
"In the vein of The Liar's Club and The Glass Castle, Jenny Forrester's memoir perfectly captures both place and a community situated on the Colorado Plateau between slot canyons and rattlesnakes, where she grew up with her mother and brother in a single-wide trailer proudly displaying an American flag. Forrester's powerfully eloquent story reveals a rural small town comprising God-fearing Republicans, ranchers, Mormons, and Native Americans. With sensitivity and resilience, Forrester navigates feelings of isolation, an abusive boyfriend, sexual assault, and a failed college attempt to forge a separate identity. As young adults, after their mother's accidental death, Forrester and her brother are left with an increasingly strained relationship that becomes a microcosm of America's political landscape. Narrow River, Wide Sky is a breathtaking, determinedly truthful story about one woman's search for identity within the mythology of family and America itself"--,Provided by publisher.