Myla Alvarex finds sustenance and meaning in the stories she tells of Old Mermaids who were washed ashore onto the New Desert when the Old Sea dried up. In this

Myla Alvarez, novice, walks into the Sonoran Desert and begins telling stories about the Old Mermaids who washed ashore onto the New Desert when the Old Sea dri

A transcendent tale of a woman's self-discovery—the New York Times–bestselling second work of fiction by the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book

Sarton’s most important novel tells the story of a poet in her seventies, whose life is retold episodically during an interview with two writers from a litera