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August 2, 1991, Twentynine Palms, California: a stressed Marine who has recently delivered from the Gulf Warfare savagely murders two girls. One was about to transform 16, the other 21. Exquisitely and inexorably, Deanne Stillman uses this tragedy as a prism by which she examines a rootless culture of fatherless individuals, shattered dreams, and relentless violence. She also traces the family histories of each murder victim back again for generations, in one circumstance to the Donner Party and the other to a shack in the Philippines. In haunting, brilliant prose, she creates a far-reaching account of America itself, holding us in to the empty white heart of the Mojave, as we meet and come to learn the modern nomads who consider the Western for salvation, only to be devoured by its false promise.
