All These Deep Arroyos
A Novel
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All These Deep Arroyos
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Matt Baca
“This story of two brothers, of the different choices they make and the different lives they lead, kept me turning the pages right to the end.”—Karen Joy Fowler
Before he’s sentenced to prison, Robin lives a hard, dried-out life in an adobe casita among the yuccas and cholla cactuses in the desierto alto, New Mexico’s high desert. But he also knows tenderness and love because of his traditional abuelos who raise him. And because of Cristina, a brilliant, fiercely independent girl from the Laguna Pueblo who insists she will be a scientist. Who insists Robin will be someone too. With her.
But just as Robin and Cristina start new lives in colleges far from home, they’re ripped apart. Robin is arrested and sentenced to federal prison because he’s fallen into one of his twin brother’s schemes. And because someone has died.
Now, seven years into Robin’s prison sentence, as Cristina has found new love, someone is secretly trying to free Robin. Someone—Robin can’t guess who—is working in the judge’s chambers, risking everything for Robin and Cristina, even as the prosecutor and the judge become increasingly suspicious. All because once, in the desierto alto, Robin and Cristina saved this friend first.©2027 Matt Baca (P)2027 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Critics' reviews
All These Deep Arroyos pulled me into the desert and then swept me away. What a gorgeous, consuming, and indelible novel, overflowing with the best of what novels can do. Matt Baca is a craftsman, writing elegantly and powerfully about life, death, and forgiveness, by way of characters who feel as real as family. This debut is a feat, and a gift. I loved this book.
This story of two brothers, of the different choices they make and the different lives they lead, kept me turning the pages right to the end. With great characters, a vivid sense of place, a compelling plot, and an assured narrative voice, this is a very impressive debut.
In All These Deep Arroyos, Matt Baca has crafted a beautiful and stirring debut novel that sings with the winds of the high desert. Told with heart and unflinching empathy, it is a glorious addition to the literature of Southern Colorado and New Mexico.
Matt Baca is a brilliant stylist and his first novel is a tour de force of friendship, love, and obsession.
All These Deep Arroyos is the story of a secret America. Of the tender, willfully resilient children of the desert. In short, It’s a killer.
Matt Baca’s elegant yet poignant coming-of-age story is deeply rooted in Rudolfo Anaya’s beloved New Mexico with all its beauty and heartbreak. This debut novel establishes Baca as an important and authentic chronicler of life in the high desert. Bravo!
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