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Laura Pritchett

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in Fort Collins, Colorado, The United States
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Laura Pritchett's seventh novel THREE KEYS is now available. Booklist has this to say: “A dedicated environmentalist and acclaimed nature writer, Pritchett’s keen observations of the world…are wondrous and lyrical, grounding her heroine’s journey in beauty and grace.”

Kirkus has this to say: “Engaging…thought-provoking and insightful. A satisfying examination of one woman’s journey of self-discovery.”


Pritchett is also the author of PLAYING WITH {WILD}FIRE (Torrey House, 2024), THE BLUE HOUR (Counterpoint, 2017), RED LIGHTNING (Counterpoint, 2015) STARS GO BLUE (Counterpoint, 2014), SKY BRIDGE (Milkweed Editions, 2009), and HELL'S BOTTOM, COLORADO (Milkweed Editions, 2001).

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Stars Go Blue

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The Blue Hour

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Three Keys

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Hell's Bottom, Colorado

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Red Lightning

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Sky Bridge

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Playing with Wildfire: A Novel

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Great Colorado Bear Stories

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"Laura Pritchett’s contemporary novels are mostly set on ranches in the Front Range, west of town. Start with 'Stars Go Blue,' an incisive family saga that may be the best, most sensitive evocation of Alzheimer’s in fiction."

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"Ammalie Brinks is out to sea; not literally of course, but figuratively as a new widow in her mid-fifties trying to navigate the now unfamiliar waters of life. Her "three keys" are gone--her husband Vincent, a job she loved, and the centrality of mot" Read more of this review »
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"One of my favorite books of the year so far! Ammalie is a woman in her 50s who has lost three “keys” in her life. Her husband died suddenly a year prior, her son has gone off to college and she has lost her job of 20 years when the restaurant where s" Read more of this review »
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This is a gorgeous memoir/natural history - and it won the prestigious Burroughs Award for good reason! If you love birds, or want to know more, this book is for you! I have had my love of kingfishers deepened, which is a true joy.
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“Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the world in the same kind of way. You know each other even before you do.”
Laura Pritchett, Sky Bridge

“If you can't get what you want, you end up doing something else, just to get some relief. Just to keep from going crazy. Because when you're sad enough, you look for ways to fill you up.”
Laura Pritchett, Sky Bridge

“For some reason I believed that if you fell in love it was a guaranteed thing that your path would cross with his, and I never wondered how if would feel to fall in love with a man whose future just couldn't include you.”
Laura Pritchett, Sky Bridge

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“Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the world in the same kind of way. You know each other even before you do.”
Laura Pritchett, Sky Bridge

“Tell ya what I'm gonna do, see. I'm not going to hope. Now, you don't either. Don't hope your life will get better. Just make it so. Don't hope you are able to handle this baby. Just do it. Just be glad, just move fast, just do what you need to do. But for god's sake, don't hope. Just be...Just be...”
Laura Pritchett, Stars Go Blue

“Sometimes this disease reminds me of a Stellar’s jay.” And Zach, sweet Zach, says, “That was well put, Renny,” and winks kindly at her. She tries to stop the smile but it’s too late. She curled her hair this morning with pink plastic curlers and she’s glad she did that because what- oh-what source of joy is there left for her in this world? She is not interested in men and their sexual needs (oh, what a relief, when she took Ben’s hand off her breast decades ago and told him that she was just done with that stuff), but she could use a friend, maybe even a friend that would rub her stiff shoulders and hold her hand, and it might as well be a man since she can’t picture wanting a woman to touch her. Everyone is still smiling at her. Smiling extra hard. She is an honored martyr. She knows that they know. That she has already lost a daughter. And on top of this she has Ben, whose speech and thought has quite suddenly taken a turn for the worse. So she gets an especially high grade for her suffering. And that’s what humans want. To feel special. Even for stupid reasons. Bastards, all of them, she says to herself, to the friendly and smiling faces, all bastards except for maybe Zach. Maybe she hates them all.”
Laura Pritchett, Stars Go Blue

“Sometimes his brain works if he can manage it like music, like a song, like a river that does not halt. So he singsongs it: “Tell you what I’m gonna do, see.” With the accent, like a Brooklyn”
Laura Pritchett, Stars Go Blue

“She swishes her arms back and forth. “Okay.” Her voice is small and quiet like a mourning dove, like the soft gray on a mourning dove’s back.”
Laura Pritchett, Stars Go Blue




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