Speckled Vanities

by Marc Estrin

Indian Springs, Nevada (pop 991), at the edge of the Mojave, is “downtown" to three — Creech Air Force Base, home to drone operators in their air-conditioned trailers,— High Desert State Prison, Nevada’s largest, newest, and most modern, and— the Sekhmet Temple of Goddess Spirituality, a women’s community in the desert.All three are concerned with violence against women.This remarkable combination is the setting for some very confused relations among four protagonists, in a plot modeled on Cervantes and Goethe. They are all musicians, and music maps their gnarly way throughout.

296 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2015

About the author

Marc Estrin is an author, cellist, and political activist living in Burlington, Vermont. He has published four novels, and a memoir of his thirty-five years of working with the Bread & Puppet Theater."