The desert rose
Larry McMurtry
2015 · Pan Macmillan · 416 pages
FictionMothers and daughtersStripteasersShowgirlsLas vegas (nev.), fiction
About this book
Harmony struggles to keep her job as a dancer in a Las Vegas casino and at the same time raise her daughter.
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A patient, character-first epic that asks you to sit with worldbuilding before any payoff arrives. Readers who love long arcs and slow-burn relationships tend to finish it twice; readers chasing momentum often DNF in the first hundred pages. Plan for unhurried evenings.
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