McLerran's sense of family dynamics rings true and her characters exhibit just the right amount of agitation and concern without becoming whiny. this whole valley will be a garden."" Though they all gamely try to adjust, in the end even Papa realizes he'd be better off selling his land and moving back to town. While the girls fret about the lack of indoor plumbing, frequent visits from scorpions and tarantulas and the all-around difficult conditions, Papa encourages them with his wonderful vision: ""The desert shall blossom as the rose,"" he says. Papa's dream of becoming a mesa homesteader in 1919 spurs him to curtail his office job and move his wife and four young daughters to a shack in the desert. As she so eloquently did in Roxaboxen, McLerran once more immortalizes a piece of land in the Southwest by describing a family's emotional attachment to it.
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