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Desert Refuge and Corporate Carnage | Reno News
In Claire Vaye Watkins’ haunting new novel Yellow Pine, a woman named Rose retreats to the Mojave Desert during a personal crisis, where isolation and vastness force her to confront grief and rediscover herself. Watkins, who grew up in the region, weaves her firsthand experience with the brutal reality of a massive solar project that destroyed hundreds of thousands of native plants and displaced desert tortoises—many of whom died trying to return home. The novel challenges the myth of the desert as empty land, revealing its rich ecology and lamenting how corporate greed and poor planning…
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