Battleborn

Product Description

The stories in Battleborn all unfold in Watkinss home state of Nevada from down south in Nye County & Las Vegas to Reno Lake Tahoe Virginia City & the Black Rock Desert the site of Burning Man. We are introduced to a very specific small-town America to those homes & lives off the highway
- the ones travellers & writers usually bypass on their way to somewhere else. While the locations are ordinary the characters & Watkinss telling of their lives is anything but. There is the man who finds a cache of letters pills & a photograph abandoned by the side of the road & as he writes to the man he imagines left them behind reveals moving truths about himself (The Last Thing We Need); the man in late middle age who finds a troubled pregnant teen dying in the desert & through her begins to dream of regaining the family he lost (Man-O-War); the brothers caught in the early days of the gold rush (The Diggings); & the sisters unable to comfort each other following their mothers suicide (Graceland). & there is the first story (Ghosts Cowboys) a semi-autobiographical account of a troubled
- & infamous
- family history. These are stories to take the reader right to the heart of a truly American experience
- face pressed up against a window peeking past the unwashed panes to watch lives unfold. In their very specificity these are stories that are also universal.