A young woman who offers to raise her teenage sisterโs baby gets more than she bargained for in โa moving story about love, duty, and familyโ (Publishers Weekly).
A supermarket clerk in a small dusty Colorado town, twenty-two-year-old Libby is full of dreams but lacks the means to pursue them. When her younger sister Tess becomes pregnant, Libby convinces her not to have an abortion by promising to raise the child herself. But then Tess takes off after the baby is born and Libby finds that her new role puts her dreams that much further away.
Her already haphazard life becomes ever more chaotic. The babyโs father, a Christian rodeo rider, suddenly demands custody. Libby loses her job, her boyfriend abandons her, and her own mother harps on how stupid she was to make that promise to Tess. Worse, her sisterโs reckless new life could put Libby herself in danger. Not just a story of a single mother overcoming obstacles, Sky Bridge is a complex novel from a PEN Award winner that leaves readers with a fresh understanding of what it means to inhabit a world in which dreams die, and are sometimes reborn.
โIn this spare yet haunting portrait of the American West, Pritchettโs powerful, poetic voice speaks with clarity, wisdom, and passion about country, family, and one young womanโs majestic spirit.โ โBooklist
โA superb writer.โ โLibrary Journal