Arizona Time: A Novel and Five Shorts

Dry heat. Drifting sand. Broken people.In Arizona Time, they weave into a hypnotic haze where the ghost of Tom Mix shares the secrets of the West, an unlikely love takes root, and a murderous drug-dealing backpacker synthesizes marijuana and metaphysics into a philosophy for the modern age.Arizona Time is set in the post-frontier American West, a landscape shaped by Larry McMurtry, Breaking Bad, Sam Shepherd, and Leslie Marmon Silko. It is a classic Western, but like no other Western before.Struggling photographer Ponder Lee Catan returns to Arizona after heartbreak and finds counsel in strange places. Isabelle Emerson, a glamorous New York art gallery manager, flees west after traumatic horror. Val Anglemann, scion of a long line of frontiersmen, nephew of a U.S. senator, and outdoorsman unhinged by drugs, seduces himself into creating a final stand.