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Narrow River, Wide Sky:

A Memoir

In the vein of The Liar’s Club and The Glass Castle, Jenny Forrester’s memoir perfectly captures both place and a community situated on the Colorado Plateau between slot canyons and rattlesnakes, where she grew up with her mother and brother in a single-wide trailer proudly displaying an American flag. Forrester’s powerfully eloquent story reveals a rural small town comprising God-fearing Republicans, ranchers, Mormons, and Native Americans. With sensitivity and resilience, Forrester navigates feelings of isolation, an abusive boyfriend, sexual assault, and a failed college attempt to forge a separate identity. As young adults, after their mother’s accidental death, Forrester and her brother are left with an increasingly strained relationship that becomes a microcosm of America’s political landscape. Narrow River, Wide Sky is a breathtaking, determinedly truthful story about one woman’s search for identity within the mythology of family and America itself.

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Soft-Hearted Stories:

Seeking Saviors, Cowboy Stylists, and Other Fallacies of Authoritarianism

In poetic prose, Forrester navigates leaving a life in one state and picking up in another and repeating the process through various and vast personal, social, and political landscapes. It’s a personal story and it’s an investigation of change and how we tend to hide away the most valuable parts of ourselves, especially, paradoxically, the parts that help us survive change, the parts that make us Soft-Hearted, and we need more soft-heartedness in all times and in all places.

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Soft-Hearted Memoir

Finish Your Book One Vignette at a Time

This little workbook, a 5.5 inch square will help you finish your book. Kate Gray, award-winning author and writing teacher says this, “Jenny Forrester’s Soft-Hearted Memoir is an invitation, a hand stretched out. In open-hearted prose, familiar like a conversation with a friend, her prompts (“Choose a relative who said too much or nothing at all or nothing that made sense.”) compel the writer to walk into difficult terrain—politics, disagreements, social inequities and injustice—so that the memoir becomes a way of “writing our resistance through artistic expression. …We’re writing ourselves resilient… so that others after us won’t have to.” Forrester has done what she asks writers to do: written the story of resistance, and this workbook is a very generous act and a practical guide.”

The People's Apocalypse

People concerned about global cataclysms still must grapple with the private ones. This is a book about personal apocalypses: When our gardens die, when all is lost, when our hearts feel ruined, we the people rise—we soften ourselves to meet the chaos. In the rubble of it all, our worst fears realized, we build some small fire and warm our hands. And as night falls, we see that the moon and stars still rise, too, with or without us, and we begin to relax. The People’s Apocalypse is 45 essays about how we prepare, respond, and recover to the large and small endings that mark our time on this earth.

A compilation of Disruptive Unchasteness–poetry, prose, visual art. This is the third volume of the Unchaste Anthology: A Print Edition of the Reading Series, The Unchaste Readers Series. Reading Our minds is the theme weaving together the raw, ecstatic, various lives of Women and Gender Non-conforming word and image artists in these snapshots, these small and mighty gems.

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A compilation of Disruptive Unchasteness–poetry, prose, visual art. This is the third volume of the Unchaste Anthology: A Print Edition of the Reading Series, The Unchaste Readers Series. Reading Our minds is the theme weaving together the raw, ecstatic, various lives of Women and Gender Non-conforming word and image artists in these snapshots, these small and mighty gems.

Download a Free Digital Copy Here.

A compilation of Disruptive Unchasteness–poetry, prose, visual art. This is the third volume of the Unchaste Anthology: A Print Edition of the Reading Series, The Unchaste Readers Series. Reading Our minds is the theme weaving together the raw, ecstatic, various lives of Women and Gender Non-conforming word and image artists in these snapshots, these small and mighty gems.

Download a Free Digital Copy Here.

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