A Desert Between Two Seas: A Novel in Stories

By A. Muia

Book Overview

Set in the crumbling Spanish missions of nineteenth-century Baja California, this mythic novel in linked stories follows two grief-stricken people as haunted as the desolate chapels around them: a priest who caused the drowning of a native boy by compelling him to fish for pearls, and a deaf woman trying to outrun her murderous reputation as a pistolera. Though the stories span landscapes, villages, characters, and decades, the heart of the novel is Baja California itself--a stark land of cactus and creosote, of russet canyons and splintered wastes of rock--where people living in the shadow of ruined missions seek redemption on an inhospitable peninsula forsaken even by its priests.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820374385
• ISBN13: 9780820374383
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful!

A book to be read and savored slowly. Each chapter is exquisitely written. I had the privilege of hearing the author speak and if you get the opportunity, don’t miss her! With all the new details she provided from her research, I want to go back and savor the stories again!