KAREN PIPER is the award-winning author of The Price of Thirst, Left in the Dust, and Cartographic Fictions. She has received the Sierra Nature Writing Award and the Next Generation Indie Book Award and fellowships from the Huntington, Carnegie Mellon, and the NEH. She is currently a professor of literature and geography at the University of Missouri.
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A surreal and poignant coming of age on a secretive missile facility, and 'an incredible view of...life in a town built for war.'--Booklist The China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of D... SEE MORE