{"product_id":"hells-bottom-colorado-9781571310361","title":"Hell's Bottom, Colorado","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the PEN USA Award for Fiction. “An admirable, steely-eyed collection of stories and vignettes featuring a family of ranchers.”—\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Hell’s Bottom Ranch, a section of land below the Front Range, there are women like Renny who prefer a “little Hell swirled with their Heaven” and men like Ben, her husband, who’s “gotten used to smoothing over Renny’s excesses.” There is a daughter who maybe plays it too safe and a daughter plagued by only “half-wanting” what life has to offer. The ranch has been the site of births and deaths of both cattle and children, as well as moments of amazing harmony and clear vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Set in the unpredictable West, these stories remind us that we cannot escape the messiness and obsessions of ordinary life.”—Patricia Henley, author of \u003cem\u003eHummingbird House\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Displays the talent of a brilliant, new writer.”—\u003cem\u003eThe Rocky Mountain News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With the rugged beauty of the Rocky Mountains as backdrop, Pritchett’s spare yet richly evocative stories portray the stark reality of life on a Colorado cattle ranch, where three generations of one family tend the land and animals, devoting and losing themselves to an existence few would understand or choose to follow . . . Regardless of whether the songs she hears are sung by a meadowlark or a jailbird, Pritchett excels at juxtaposing the sensuous with the severe, the rapturous with the repugnant.”—\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The stories jump back and forth in time, but their message is clear: this family’s ties are as quixotic, fierce, and enduring as the land that binds them together.”—\u003cem\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Laura Pritchett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48284524511483,"sku":"9781571310361","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781571310361_f9f8c85e-92e5-4b05-bd16-233794704c29.jpg?v=1772484906","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/hells-bottom-colorado-9781571310361","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}