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“CVW: Yes, Yellow Pine is a real for-profit industrial solar array near my house.”
“She’s returning to her desert home, only forty miles from where she grew up, as well as to Miles.”
“How extensive has this building become in the Mojave?”
“And (good) fiction’s way of looking is not passive.”
“I also just wanted to see the place before it was killed, and writing is how I see best.”
“CVW: This book is about disillusionment and re-enchantment.”
“Over the years I’ve noticed environment writers being a little more precise and discerning about solar.”
“The goal of a renewable energy transition would be the preservation of life on Earth.”
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““The place is my muse,” Watkins acknowledges.”
“So she communes with books and tries (with varying degrees of success) to use them to connect others.”
“Claire Vaye Watkins: That first-person I voice is a mystery, isn’t it?”
“I try to see the land as it sees me.”
“Watching the Yellow Pine array closely, through the whole process, got me deep into the issue.”
“It takes a lot of energy to write a novel.”
“I started going out to the site during the pandemic, before there were stakes in the ground.”
“JC: How long have you been tracking the green-energy gold rush in the Mojave?”
““It’s an undulating creosote sea that I credit for making the air I breathed throughout my girlhood….from Yellow Pine one looks up to Mount Charleston, the highest peak in the Spring Mountains and a key site in the Salt Songs, the ceremonial creation myth song cycle of the Nuwu.” * Jane Ciabattari: The opening lines to Yellow Pine —“Miles came back to Rose transformed.”
“Partly this is because the array is in the valley where I grew up, but even more it’s because the gatherings there were the most surprising protests I’d ever been to.”
“eventually called it Clark County, Nevada.”
“(I do wonder who the first-person I is?) What inspires you to write about returning to love, trying again—such a vulnerable endeavor?”
“Even so, we don’t believe it.” JC: Rose, who is working as a fundraiser for the Sierra Club, is turning forty.”
“So they saved that much clean air and water and a whole lot of living things, including a Joshua Tree forest in the array’s original footprint.”