Running for Water and Sky: A Novel - Softcover

Sandra Kring is the author of five novels, including bestseller The Book of Bright Ideas, which was named to the New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age list in 2007. Her novel Carry Me Home was a Book Sense Notable Pick and Midwest Bookseller’s Choice Award nominee. She lives in Northern Wisconsin with her high school sweetheart; they have three grown children. Writing is her greatest passion, but she also loves reading, music, and movies. Running for Water and Sky is her first YA novel.

2016 USA Best Book Awards: Cross Genre Fiction, Finalist
"Sandra Kring’s characters are at once unique and familiar, vulnerable and troubling, ordinary and exquisite. We fall in love with them from the beginning, and end with a new measure of mercy for ourselves and those around us.”

―Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Water For Elephants
"Richly realized storytelling, setting, and detailed characters paint a vivid picture of Bless' experiences in Nebraska . . . a sustained melodrama with no letdown from an intense plotline . . . to satisfy many readers"

―Kirkus Reviews
"Kring has created a powerful story that proves while we may have a past that has shown us anything but love, it can be the same past that teaches what love really means."

―Jessica Stevens, author of Within Reach
Past Praise for Sandra Kring
For Carry Me Home
“Sandra Kring weaves an intricate and heartwarming tale of family, love, and forgiveness in her sensational debut novel ... Kring’s passionate voice is reminiscent of Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinbeck ... She will make you laugh, have you in tears, and take you back to the days of good friends, good times, millponds, and bonfires. This is a piece destined to become a classic and a must-read for devotees of the historical fiction or the literary fiction genre.”

―Midwest Book Review (five stars)
“Touching...surprisingly poignant ... builds to an emotional crescendo ... The book becomes so engrossing that it’s tough to see it end.”

―Washington Post
“Sandra Kring writes with such passion and immediacy, spinning us back in time, making us feel the characters’ hope, desire, laughter, sorrow, and redemption. I read this novel straight through and never wanted it to end.”

―Luanne Rice, New York Times best-selling author of Last Kiss
For Thank You For All Things
“A beautiful, witty story that rings with heartbreak, hope and laughter ... Kring’s brilliance lies in her powerful reversals and revelations, taking readers and characters on a dramatic, emotional roller coaster.”

―Publishers Weekly, starred review
“ ... A surprising and insightful story about families, love, and the complexity of human beings. Excellent storytelling ...”

―Feast