Novelist Claire Vaye Watkins on the beauty & brutality of the desert
Claire Vaye Watkins' new novel Yellow Pine explores the moral and existential weight of protest, environmental destruction, and personal sacrifice, set against the Mojave Desert’s fragile ecosystem and her own fraught family history. The conversation reveals how her life—marked by loss,
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