![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I’m from the East Coast, and I’ve never been in an environment like that-it feels you could get lost at every turn and it’s mind-blowing how people walked across this land and somehow cultivated it.” She subsequently rented a hotel for six weeks to write chapters two through five. “I just thought it was incredibly strange and magical and weird and scary and barren,” Pochoda says of her first encounter with the desert space. On her way to California’s Joshua Tree National Park, the now 40-year-old author inadvertently ended up in the unincorporated community (under the jurisdiction of San Bernardino County), 155 miles east of Los Angeles and 15 miles northeast of her intended destination, sealing the fate, and the plot, of her third novel, Wonder Valley. Ivy Pochoda’s first time in Wonder Valley was an accident. ![]()
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