Meanwhile, Julius is testing his fate in Las Vegas, working at a local casino where tourists watch atomic tests from the roof, and falling in love with Henry, a young card cheat. And so she begins slipping off to the Del Mar racetrack to bet and eavesdrop, learning the language of horses and risk. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in: She misses her freethinking mother, dead before Muriel's nineteenth birthday, and her sly, itinerant brother-in-law, Julius, who made the world feel bigger than she had imagined. Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. have the aura of realms.” - The New York Times Book ReviewĪ lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow divergent and dangerous paths through the postwar American West. The spaces she creates for her characters. Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by The New York Times, Real Simple, Electric Literature, and more. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.
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