In Desert Gothic, Don Waters unleashes a wild and gritty cast and points them down paths of reckoning, where the characters earn the grace of their hard-won wisdom. This powerful collection, set in the light-filled deserts of Nevada and Arizona, introduces a darkly inventive new voice. "In this remarkable collection of stories, Don Waters presents ten lives that epitomize the journey toward volition in the face of frustration, absurdity and, realistically or metaphorically, the Nevada desert landscape itself..." —Brynn Harris, The Virginia Quarterly Review ::: full review "Spare and dry as trail dust, Waters’s prose captures these characters in both the blinding light and the resulting shadow of this “edge of civilized space” and, in doing so, calls into question what makes us civilized. His uncelebrated loners are in constant motion, navigating sun-soft parking lots and empty highways, teetering between redemption and ruin..." —Nate Cavalieri, The Believer ::: full review >> Order: Find your local independent bookstore >> Online: Amazon.com | Powell's Books | Univ. of Iowa Press << back