Author Gary George lived in Needles, California, for 11 years and all his novels play out against the Mojave Desert, usually taking place in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. George will read from his latest book this Friday in Yucca Valley. Reporter Heather Clisby has the details …
With his latest book entitled, “The Carnival, The Cross, and the Burning Desert,” author Gary George returns again and again to the expansive Mojave Desert he grew to love while living in nearby Needles. George will read from this novel on Friday, November 15 at 7 p.m.
The novel takes place in the summer of ’64 in the town of Smoke Tree where Capt. Carlos Caballo, who leads the local Sheriff’s substation, is wrangling a multitude of thorny problems. First, there’s a joint Army-Air Force exercise that has dropped 100,000 soldiers nearby, a risqué carnival, a revival preacher, a railroad thievery plot and, of course, the Mafia.
The free reading will take place at the Black Rock Nature Center at 9800 Black Rock Canyon Road in Yucca Valley. For more info, call the Desert Institute at 760- 367-5539.
