Narrow River, Wide Sky: A Memoir

In the vein ofThe Liar's Club andThe 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. ForresterÆs 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 motherÆs accidental death, Forrester and her brother are left with an increasingly strained relationship that becomes a microcosm of AmericaÆs political landscape.Narrow River, Wide Sky is a breathtaking, determinedly truthful story about one womanÆs search for identity within the mythology of family and America itself.

• | Author: Jenny Forrester
• | Publisher: Hawthorne Books
• | Publication Date: May 02, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 212 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 0997068353
• | ISBN-13: 9780997068351