Crackpots

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.

Author: Sara Pritchard
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 08/17/2003
Pages: 194
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.52w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780618302451

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2003 pg. 829
Publishers Weekly 07/14/2003 pg. 55
New York Times 08/24/2003 pg. 9
New York Times 12/07/2003 pg. 65

About the Author
Pritchard, Sara: - Sara Pritchard is the author of the novel Crackpots, which was selected as a New York Times Notable Book and was chosen by Ursula Hegi to receive the Bakeless Prize for fiction. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from West Virginia University and has published stories and essays in a number of literary journals. She lives in Morgantown, West Virginia.