Carter Sickels
The Prettiest Star.
Spartanburg, S.C.: Hub City Press, 2020. Cold Mountain Fund Series. First edition. 9781938235627 295 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in black paper spine and boards, with stamped blue lettering to spine and front cover. Book and dust jacket are new.
"The story of Brian’s return to small-town Ohio is told in a chorus of voices: Brian’s mother Sharon; his fourteen-year-old sister, Jess, as she grapples with her brother’s mysterious return; and the video diaries Brian makes to document his final summer. Written in prose that seeks “to answer without flinching away from ugliness and without demonizing the ignorant” (Salon), "The Prettiest Star" offers an urgent portrait of a family in the center of a national crisis, in order to tell a unique story about the politics and fragility of the body, and to explore the bounds of family and redemption."