Laura Pritchett: 7 books

Great Colorado Bear Stories is an incredible look at Colorado’s bears, including the grizzlies that once roamed the state and the black bears that still do. Carefully researched and skillfully written by award-winning Colorado writer Laura Pritchett, these stories describe the fascinating...

Death is a great and grand mystery, and the actual act of dying is the last physical act of our lives. We can do it well, like a graceful well-rehearsed piano solo—or we can do it like that first awkward dance with a middle-school crush. But if anything deserves our full attention, some preparation,...

Pritchett is the winner of the PEN USA Award for Fiction, the Colorado Book Award, the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, and others, and has published over 100 essays and short stories in magazines (including O Magazine, High Country News, 5280, The Sun, Orion, and others) Her most recent essay for...

From the PEN USA Award–winning author comes a novel about a mother’s haunting past, and her fight for redemption in the contemporary American West.   Ten years ago, in an impulsive act of bravery, defiance, and recklessness, Tess Cross left her newborn daughter with her sister and hightailed...

On 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...

“Manages to be both warm-hearted and violent at once—a complex, deeply imagined family tale which finds unexpected gifts at its conclusion.” —Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong Hardscrabble ranchers Renny and Ben Cross are estranged, elderly spouses living on opposite ends of their sprawling...

A supermarket clerk in a small dusty town, 22-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...