{"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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515808944402,"sku":"9781571310361","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_73776ee6-035b-4432-81dc-523bc34124da.jpg?v=1731012541","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hells-bottom-colorado-9781571310361","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}