"Set in the unpredictable West of stillborn calves and blinding snowstorms, these sensual stories remind us again that no matter how much psychic or geographical space we claim for our own, we cannot escape the messiness and obsessions of ordinary life."-Patricia Henley Pritchett's powerful debut collection is set in a small ranching community beneath the Rocky Mountains. These inter-connected stories illustrate one family's connection to the landscape and their way of life as they struggle, in the largest sense, to live fully. Book tour dates include: o Minneapolis/St. Paul o Denver Laura Pritchett grew up on a small cattle ranch in northern Colorado and is now enrolled in the Ph.D. program at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. The story "Dry Roots" was published in The Sun. This is her first book.