Reviews for Inlandia

The average rating for Inlandia based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-09-10 00:00:00 Jorge Portal A luscious collection from a special unique place, spanning its years and generations. Inlandia. "That might be the story of Riverside. Trying to fit in with the big boys by accommodating their oversized posteriors. ... That's how we say it. We say, 'This is a horsey area.' ... That means go slow. We have feed stores and tack shops and desert, a really beautiful desert. It's the desert that has me here in 909. Technically, the Badlands is chaparral. The hills are filled with sage, wild mustard, fiddleheads and live oaks. Bobcats, meadowlarks, geckos, horned lizards, red tailed hawks, kestrels, coach whip snakes, king snakes, gopher snakes. Rattlesnakes and coyotes. We don't see rain for seven months of the year and when we do we often flood. In the spring, the hillsa re green. They are layered and gorgeous. This is in contrast to the rest of the year when the hills are brown and ochre and layered and gorgeous. ~ 909, Percival Everett in Gayle Wattawa, Inlandia: A Literary Journey Through California's Inland Empire

Review # 2 was written on 2008-07-28 00:00:00 Lukasz Lukasinski This book brought me to places I haven't been to in the Inland Empire and brought me back to some I HAVE been to. The excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath was particularly familiar because I'd read that book long ago when I still lived in Minnesota and had never heard of the Inland Empire. On one of my first visits there, I travelled through the Cajon pass and suddenly recognized it from the passage in The Grapes of Wrath. Beforewarned that not all of the pieces in this book are complete. It's a real mixed bag of poetry, novel excerpts and short stories and ranges from many styles and eras. But you get a good "slice of life in the desert." And now I have more books to add to my reading list. :)