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Look beyond the sprawl and congestion of this desert state with books from Wallace Stegner, Geronimo and Barbara Kingsolver -- and an unlikely guide to the Grand Canyon.
  • Two more Arizona books that shouldn't be missed...

    For fans of magical realism, don't miss Alfredo Vea Jr.'s La Maravilla, set in the desert outskirts of Phoenix, and Terri Windling's The Wood Wife, set in the Rincon Mountains near Tucson. Both these novels evoke the desert beautifully, and are too often overlooked.

    For nonfiction, I agree with other letter writers here that Charles Bowden's work is