Narrow river, wide sky

By Jenny Forrester

Subjects: Young women, Biography, Girls -- Colorado -- Mancos -- Biography, Mancos (Colo.) -- Rural conditions, Family, Colorado, biography, Childhood and youth, Forrester, Jenny -- Family, Coming of age -- Colorado -- Mancos, Girls, Coming of age, Rural conditions, Mancos (Colo.) -- Biography, Forrester, Jenny -- Childhood and youth, Colorado Plateau -- Biography, Young women -- Colorado -- Mancos -- Biography, Forrester, Jenny, Eagle River Region (Colo.) -- 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"--