Laura Pritchett. (2014). Stars Go Blue: A Novel. Catapult.

Laura Pritchett. 2014. Stars Go Blue: A Novel. Catapult.

Laura Pritchett, Stars Go Blue: A Novel. Catapult, 2014.

Laura Pritchett. Stars Go Blue: A Novel. Catapult, 2014.

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   • bioText: Laura Pritchett is the acclaimed author of Stars Go Blue, Red Lightning, Hell's Bottom, Colorado, and Sky Bridge as well as several books of nonfiction. Her work has garnered several awards, including the PEN USA Award for Fiction, the WILLA, the High Plains Book Award, and others. Learn more at laurapritchett.com
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Laura Pritchett is an award–winning author who has quickly become one of the west's defining literary voices. We first met hardscrabble ranchers Renny and Ben Cross in Laura's debut collection, and now in Stars Go Blue, they are estranged, elderly spouses living on opposite ends of their sprawling ranch, faced with the particular decline of a fading farm and Ben's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. He is just on the cusp of dementia, able to recognize he is sick but unable to do anything about it —the notes he leaves in his pockets and around the house to remind him of himself, his family, and his responsibilities are no longer as helpful as they used to be. Watching his estranged wife forced into care–taking and brought to her breaking point, Ben decides to leave his life with whatever dignity and grace remains.
As Ben makes his decision, a new horrible truth comes to light: Ray, the abusive husband of their late daughter is being released from prison early. This opens old wounds in Ben, his wife, his surviving daughter, and four grandchildren. Branded with a need for justice, Ben must act before his mind leaves him, and sets off during a brutal snowstorm to confront the man who murdered his daughter. Renny, realizing he is missing, sets off to either stop or witness her husband's act of vengeance.
Stars Go Blue is a triumphant novel of the American family, buffered by the workings of a ranch and the music offered by the landscape and animal life upon it.

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   • source: Real Simple
   • content: "In this haunting tale. . .the weather plays a supporting character, and its unpredictability, constantly switching from placid to punishing, mirrors the tenderness and the tumult in the couple's marriage. Pritchett's prose is so beautifully crafted that she manages to make sadness beautiful and tragedy compelling."
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   • source: Booklist, Starred Review
   • content: "There is more than just the bleak and unforgiving setting of the Rocky Mountain foothills to recommend Pritchett to fans of Kent Haruf's similarly placed novels. Strength of character and simplicity of language comparably complement a rich underpinning of savagery and sadness as Pritchett sensitively navigates the end of a life and sublimely realizes its enduring legacy."
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   • source: Library Journal, Starred Review
   • content: "Pritchett delivers a brilliant novel, filled with heartache and humor, that will strike a chord with many readers. A heart–wrenching exploration of a family in crisis."
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   • source: The Coloradoan
   • content: ""Pritchett's prose is luminous and sparse, her dialogue revealing and muscular. . . She writes to understand, and, in doing so, invites the reader to explore the boundaries of their own relationships and the decisions they have made, out of fear, out of anger, or out of love. It's an invitation you should accept."
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     Starred review from May 1, 2014
     

     Award-winning author Pritchett introduced Renny and Ben Cross in Hell's Bottom, Colorado, a novel that's unsparing in its stark detail of ranch life in eastern Colorado. In this emotionally charged new book, Renny and Ben are still devoted but have been driven apart by the murder of their daughter Rachel, from which neither has recovered. Rachel's abusive husband, Ray, spent time in prison for the crime, but now he's out and headed back to his hometown nearby. Facing a dangerous man like Ray is only one of Renny's worries. She has to figure out how best to dispose of their failing ranch while watching Ben struggle with Alzheimer's. In his muddled state, Ben has secretly devised a bizarre plan to assure justice for Rachel and a secure future for their surviving daughter and grandchildren, but Renny suspects his scheme when she finds the notes he's written to himself on little pieces of paper. Determined to rescue him, Renny foolishly heads out into a frightening blizzard. In the final chapter, granddaughter Jess speaks from the heart about Ben's dignity, his respect for the land, and his solid devotion to his family. VERDICT Pritchett delivers a brilliant novel, filled with heartache and humor, that will strike a chord with many readers. A heart-wrenching exploration of a family in crisis.--Donna Bettencourt, Mesa Cty. P.L., Palisade, CO

     Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Starred review from May 1, 2014
     Readers will remember Renny and Ben Cross from Pritchett's stellar first collection of linked stories, Hell's Bottom, Colorado (2001). Life in the meantime has not been kind to the salt-of-the-earth, hard-working couple. Their daughter, Rachel, was murdered before their very eyes a few years back by her meth-head husband, Ray. Now Ben has rapidly progressing dementia, and Renny is left to tend to the ranch and her husband single-handedly. When the Crosses learn that Ray has been released from prison in nearby Greeley, Ben leaves in the midst of a snowstorm to confront the man who ruined his family, armed with enough weapons to ensure his misery will end. When Renny discovers Ben is gone, she takes off in what is now a full-blown blizzard, uncertain that she will find Ben in time. There is more than just the bleak and unforgiving setting of the Rocky Mountain foothills to recommend Pritchett to fans of Kent Haruf's similarly placed novels. Strength of character and simplicity of language comparably complement a rich underpinning of savagery and sadness as Pritchett sensitively navigates the end of a life and sublimely realizes its enduring legacy.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

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As Ben makes his decision, a new horrible truth comes to light: Ray, the abusive husband of their late daughter is being released from prison...

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