Libby is a bagger at the supermarket in town. She is also a new mother - not of her own child, but of her little sister's. Tess did not want the baby, but Libby convinced her not to have an abortion by promising to raise it - a promise Tess thought was crazy and Libby believed she would not have to keep. Now Tess has left for Durango and Libby pays rent to share a house with her mother on land neither of them own. She drives into town a few days a week to work at the supermarket - where everyone thinks she's heroic - and sometimes sees her boyfriend, Derek, but for the most part is alone with Amber, the baby. A steady flow of Libby's dreams and worries about Tess wash over the baby like warm bath water.
Tess drops out of touch just when the baby's Christian rodeo-riding father appears to demand custody. The curious beekeeper, Ed Munger asks to keep a hive near Libby's house. Across the road, Miguel, another single parent, is raising money to bring illegals across the border and Baxter, the rancher on whose land Libby lives, has decided he wants to irrigate to provide water for coyotes and upland birds.
Sky Bridge takes readers inside the mind of a young woman with the possibly naive belief in the worth of her impulses and a community in which everyone is finding their own way of covering the gap between the horizon and the land at their feet.
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Book details

• Format Hardcover
• Pages298 pages
• LanguageEnglish
• ISBN101571310460
• ISBN139781571310460