Crackpots: A Novel (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Crackpots: A Novel Saturday, August 22 2009.

• When we first meet Ruby Reese she"s a spunky kid in a cowgirl hat, tap dancing her way through a slightly off-kilter 1950s childhood. With an insomniac mother and a demolitions-expert father, her entire family is what the residents of her small town would call "a bunch of crackpots." Despite the dramas of her upbringing, Ruby matures into a creative, introspective, and wholly beguiling woman. But her adulthood is marked by complex relationships and romantic missteps -- three unsuitable marriages, dramatic crushes, the complicated love between siblings. As Sara Pritchard deftly guides us through Ruby's story, from the present to the past and back again, a portrait of a remarkably resilient woman emerges. Suffused with humor and melancholy, imagination and insight, Crackpots heralds the debut of a skilled and sensitive storyteller.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Crackpots: A Novel Tuesday, July 28 2009.

• Added a contributor: Sara Pritchard: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Crackpots: A Novel Friday, July 17 2009.

• 1951-I did not come here kicking and screaming like Albertine.