amandam's review
3.0
I found a lot of this book illuminating, but I read it in fits and starts because it couldn't always hold my attention. Ultimately, there isn't a compelling central narrative beyond the author's own experience, and I most enjoyed when he got out of the way and focused on issues within the desert itself. I almost gave up before the chapter on Marfa and am glad I didn't. Much of the information I take away makes me feel implicated as part of the problem (perhaps rightly so), but I continue to be intrigued by the desert and interested in what forces shape and change its cultural geography.
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