Narrow river, wide sky
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Jenny Forrester
Publisher: Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780997068351
Subjects: Coming of age; Family; Young women; Rural conditions; Girls; Childhood and youth; Biography
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"--
Table of contents: title: I. Children of a Narrow River; title: The Narrow River; title: Strange Land; title: Daughters and Son; title: A Familiar Kind of Forgiveness; title: II. Seeking Redemption : Becoming Mancos; title: Supine; title: Kneel; title: Run; title: Crawl; title: III. An American Trailer Trash Republican Childhood; title: Running Mountains; title: Sex Education; title: Small Town Dreams; title: Narrow River, Wide Sky; title: IV. Not Meant for the Same Things; title: College; title: Boys Who Didn't Chew Tobacco; title: What'll You Be When You Grow Up?; title: Salt River; title: V. The Wildness of the Source You Can't Kill; title: My Chevy S10 Pickup Truck; title: Up to Leadville; title: Digging Postholes for Fences; title: A Wide River; title: Epilogue.