"succeeds in supplementing, enhancing, and completing our understanding of American letters as literature"-- Chronicles ; "Neglected and overlooked as a California author, Laura Arner deserves a second life. Brosman gives that to her. The Arizona years, in close conjunction with the Navajo, are spellbinding."--Constance Rowell Mastores, author of A Deep But Dazzling Darkness ; "A fresh and finely nuanced interpretation of the response by a group of women writers to the American Southwest. It should be of great interest to anyone concerned with American regional expression."--Donald Pizer, author of Toward A Modernist Style: John Dos Passos ; "Brosman explores deftly and sympathetically the fiction of five women who deal compellingly with universal themes."--Allen Frederick Stein, author of After the Vows Were Spoken: Marriage in American Literary Realism .