The Land that Touches Mine

This novel is right up there with Make My Bed in Hell in the running for best Sanford novel. It is a story of doomed love between people who have lost what was most important to them, replete with snappy dialogue. It also is a novel about conscience, both personal and national. The descriptions of the summer heat in El Centro are so vivid. This book is unjustly neglected among Sanford’s work. It is very much worth reading.