Crackpots

When we first meet Ruby Reese shes 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.