As part-time resident and full-time observer, William Kittredge acquaints us with one of the country's most vital and perpetually evolving … As part-time resident and full-time observer, William Kittredge acquaints us with one of the country's most vital and perpetually evolving regions. Populated with die-hard desert rats on the banks of the Colorado, theoretical physicists in Albuquerque, Hopi mothers and their daughters, and renegade punk-rock kids sleeping in the streets, Southwestern Homelands is a book as much about the legacies of a territory's colorful past as it is about the alternately exciting and daunting complexities of its immediate future.
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"One of many writers stoked to eloquence by the grit and grace of southwestern life, Kittredge is an ideal guide not only to the … "One of many writers stoked to eloquence by the grit and grace of southwestern life, Kittredge is an ideal guide not only to the complexities of this evocative homeland but also to the psyche itself."—Booklist
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