Narrow River, Wide Sky Paperback by Jenny Forrester

Product Details

• Publisher: Hawthorne Books (2017-05-02)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 238 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780997068351
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

For readers of The Liar's Club and The Glass Castle, this powerful memoir chronicles one woman's upbringing in a single-wide trailer on the Colorado Plateau, a journey that mirrors America's political divisions—a breathtakingly honest search for identity within the mythology of family and country

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.

About the Author

JENNY FORRESTER has been published in a number of print and online publications including Seattle’s City Arts Magazine, Nailed Magazine, Hip Mama, The Literary Kitchen, Indiana Review, and Columbia Journal. Her work is included in the Listen to Your Mother anthology, published by Putnam. She curates the Unchaste Readers Series.