PositiveNew Orleans ReviewWith the Mojave Desert as her set and vibrant characters as her stars, Watkins’s collection is an almost filmic bricolage of survival in an unforgiving landscape ... each character’s story agitates a specific tension within the mythology of the American West. Battleborn freshly narrativizes the desert frontier as a place where the contemporary runs into the past, honesty meets exaggeration, and fact blurs into fiction.
