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001			on1290014512
003			OCoLC
005			20221122094519.0
008			211225s2022 nyu 000 f eng d
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019			_a1289988384 _a1289999916
020			_a1645660524
020			_a9781645660521 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1290014512 _z(OCoLC)1289988384 _z(OCoLC)1289999916
092			_aCHRONIST _bKAY
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aChronister, Kay, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDesert creatures / _cKay Chronister.
250			_aFirst US edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bErewhon Books, _c2022.
300			_a285 pages ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"Nine-year-old Magdala and her father have been exiled from their home; they flee through the harsh landscape of the American West, searching for refuge. As violence pursues them, they join a handful of survivors on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Las Vegas, where it is said that vigilante saints reside, bright with neon power. Magdala, born with a clubfoot, is going to be healed. But when faced with the strange horrors of the Sonoran Desert, one by one the pilgrims fall victim to a hideous sickness--leaving Magdala to fend for herself. After surviving for seven years on her own, Magdala is tired of waiting for her miracle. Magdala turns her gaze to Las Vegas once more, and this time, nothing will stop her. She recruits an exiled Vegas priest at gunpoint to serve as her guide, and the pair form a fragile alliance as they navigate the darkest and strangest reaches of the desert, on a journey that takes her further from salvation even as she nears the holy city. With ferocious imagination and poetic precision, Desert Creatures is a story of endurance at the expense of redemption. What compromise does survival require of a woman--and can she ever unlearn the instincts that have kept her alive?"--Book jacket flap.
650		0	_aDisabilities _vFiction.
650		0	_aPilgrims and pilgrimages _vFiction. _9234704
650		0	_aSurvival _vFiction. _92804
650		0	_aDeserts _vFiction. _969301
655		7	_aDystopian fiction. _2lcgft _9213996
655		7	_aHorror fiction. _2lcgft _9203
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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