Mary Austin's The Land of Little Rain (1903) and Lost Borders
(1909), both set in the California desert, make intimate
connections between animals, people, and the land they inhabit. For
Austin, the two indispensable conditions of her fiction were that
the region must enter the story "as another character, as the
instigator of plot," and that the story must reflect "the essential
qualities of the land." In The Land of Little Rain, Austin's
attention to natural detail allows her to write prose that is
geologically, biologically, and botanically accurate at the same
time that it offers metaphorical insight into human emotional and
spiritual experience. In Lost Borders, Austin focuses on both white
and Indian women's experiences in the desert, looks for the sources
of their deprivation, and finds them in the ways life betrays them,
usually in the guise of men. She offers several portraits of strong
women characters but ultimately identifies herself with the desert,
which she personifies as a woman.
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