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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.
About the Author
Jenny Forrester has been published in Gobshite Quarterly, Pom Pom Lit, Seattle's City Arts Magazine, Nailed Magazine, Hip Mama, The Literary Kitchen, Indiana Review, Columbia Journal, Portland Review, and the Listen to Your Mother anthology. She curates the Unchaste Readers Series. Hawthorne Books published Narrow River, Wide Sky: A Memoir. Book trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=SsWaOtAxyl4
