“Valente’s superb writing propels us on a most unusual journey filled with unraveling emotions and the breathtaking mysteries of desert river beds, red rock formations, and dinosaur skeletons. Impossible to put down.”
“Anne Valente is a sorceress, conjuring a story of sorrow and suspense with characters so real we feel their heartbreak, their bewilderment, the horrible chills down their spines...This is a gorgeous book full of mysteries. It scorches with truth, and sings with hope. Valente writes like all of our lives depend on it.”
— Diane Cook, author of The New Wilderness
About Anne Valente
Anne Valente is the author of two novels, The Desert Sky Before Us (William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2019), which was selected as an InStyle Best Book of the Month, and Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down (William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2016), which was an Amazon Best Book of the Month, a Midwestern Connections Pick, a Refinery29 Best Book and one of Ploughshares’ Most Necessary Books of 2016. She is also the author of the short story collection, By Light We Knew Our Names, which won the 2014 Dzanc Prize, and the fiction chapbook, An Elegy for Mathematics (Bull City Press, 2017).