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Leaving Arizona
A collection of short stories featuring characters who are stuck: in reality, in their lives, in bad decisions and the darker sides of life backlit by the unforgiving heat of the desert. The desert can be as cruel as a neglectful parent, an abusive lover, leaving these characters in a drought of love and nourishment. It is the perfect setting for the women, men, children and even the dead who traverse these stories by Justin Hunter, characters gripped in their own struggle, some finding a way to shed their identities like skins, others able to leap through time, but many of them remaining stagnant and unaltered.
194 pages, Paperback
Published May 1, 2020
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October 1, 2021
I read this as I myself was leaving Arizona. I'm not a native, but I spent ten years in that desert. I hated every moment. But Justin Hunter shoved some of that tragic desert beauty in front of my eyes. Opened a window through which I saw some of what people loved about this place. Loved and hated. I did eventually come back, just to leave again. I can't say I'll ever willingly return to Arizona. But I do appreciate its beauty.
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