The kids – Victoria (“Vic”), Palmer, Connor, and Rob, endure harsh treatment from others who know of their mother Rose’s occupation. Palmer’s father was a great sand diver, but walked out on the family twelve years before, leaving his mother with four children and no options to support them but prostitution. “Once the sand enveloped him, Palmer felt the exhilaration a dune-hawk must feel in flight, a sense of weightlessness and liberation, the power to glide any direction he liked.” Palmer, one of the protagonists who comes from a family of sand divers, lived for “that razor-thin line between insanity and good sense.” He explained: But sand diving has another appeal for its skilled practitioners. Sand divers have learned to use special equipment to plunge into the sand and recover treasures from the deeply buried cities that they can sell to buy food and water for themselves and their families. It is a constant struggle to keep sand out of every unprotected opening, and to mine water and oil from far below the shifting surface. This outstanding post-apocalyptic story takes place in the former West, barely recognizable because it is covered by deep sand.
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