| Winner of the Milkweek National Fiction Prize, in this collection of linked short stories, Laura Pritchett balances gritty material with genuine warmth and understanding of character. Hell s Bottom is more than a ranch. Home to Renny, one of those women who prefers a little Hell swirled with their Heaven, and her husband, Ben, who s gotten used to smoothing over Renny s excesses, 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. A day of haying turns violent in A New Name Each Day, while in Rattlesnake Fire, Ben and his estranged sister must decide whether to put aside their differences to save families trapped by a forest fire. In Pritchett s masterful hands, the western landscape becomes a zone of familial crisis and, sometimes, transcendence. |
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