Laura Pritchett

Sky Bridge

A Novel

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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 mo… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-57131-856-5
EAN: 9781571318565
Produktnummer: 21821241
Verlag: Milkweed Editions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 232 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 375 KB
Auflage: First Trade Paper Edition

Über den Autor

Laura Pritchett is the author of Hell's Bottom, Colorado, a collection of short stories that won the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and the PEN USA West Literary Award for Fiction. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including The Sun, Divide, and Colorado Review. Pritchett has a B.A. and M.A. in English from Colorado State University and a PhD in Contemporary American Literature from Purdue. Sky Bridge is her first novel, but by no means her last.Pritchett lives near Fort Collins, CO