Watkins should have been the ideal writer for this sympathetic take on new age spirituality and desert eco-activism – but the results are confusing Rose, the protagonist of Claire Vaye Watkins’s latest novel, has retreated from the world to live in Nothingness Flats, a cinder-block cabin in the N...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/20/yellow-pine-by-claire-vaye-watkins-review-messy-portrait-of-protest-subculture)