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02929aim a22004095a 4500 001 3D75C4D6940511EE938C1F5A49ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231206010040 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 221221s2022 xxunnn es f n eng d 020 $a 1666626384 020 $a 9781666626384 028 42 $a MWT15458332 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20221024 100 1 $a Chronister, Kay, $e author. 245 10 $a Desert creatures $h [electronic resource] / $c Kay Chronister. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b Dreamscape Media, $c 2022. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 55 min.)) : $b digital. 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 $a Read by various readers. 520 $a Nine-year-old Magdala and her father have been exiled from their home; they flee through the harsh landscape of the American West, searching for refuge. As violence pursues them, they join a handful of survivors on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Las Vegas, where it is said that vigilante saints reside, bright with neon power. Magdala, born with a clubfoot, is going to be healed. But when faced with the strange horrors of the Sonoran Desert, one by one the pilgrims fall victim to a hideous sickness-leaving Magdala to fend for herself. After surviving for seven years on her own, Magdala is tired of waiting for her miracle. Magdala turns her gaze to Las Vegas once more, and this time, nothing will stop her. She recruits an exiled Vegas priest at gunpoint to serve as her guide, and the pair form a fragile alliance as they navigate the darkest and strangest reaches of the desert on a journey that takes her further from salvation even as she nears the holy city. With ferocious imagination and poetic precision, Desert Creatures is a story of endurance at the expense of redemption. What compromise does survival require of a woman-and can she ever unlearn the instincts that have kept her alive? Combining the subversive inventiveness of T?a Obreht's Inland with the eco-surrealism of Jeff Vandermeer's Dead Astronauts and the themes of survival and morality in Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Kay Chronister transfigures genre and the myth of the West in her debut novel. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 $a Survival $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Deserts $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Shalan, Gail, $e narrator. 700 1 $a Rivera, Thom, $e narrator. 700 1 $a Naeymi, Samara, $e narrator. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/15458332?utm_source=MARC $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/dsa_9781666626384_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20231206011750.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3D75C4D6940511EE938C1F5A49ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search