Peculiar Savage Beauty

2018 Arizona Book of the YearPeculiar Savage Beauty is the story of a headstrong and fiercely independent young woman who charges into the heart of the wind- and drought-ravaged Great Plains in the 1930s intent on battling the dust and healing the land. As a geologist working for the U.S. government Rosa Jean RJ Evans must find her place in a small farming town that welcomes neither a woman in authority nor changes to their way of life.Inspired by actual historical events during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl environmental disaster Peculiar Savage Beauty is a parable about mans quest to dominate the land and natures refusal to be conquered about unlikely alliances and unexpected love.