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On a sweet autumn day, on a holy hill, butterflies flickered over the chamisa bushes. Dozens of butterflies, where yesterday there had been only a few. Dancing in pairs, twirling alone, they graced the invisible air, their antics more and more ecstatic as they clutched each other, drifted apart, and grappled with new partners. My daughter and I tuned our ears to their fluttering. Laughing, we rose off our feet, held up by unexpected joy and the lightness of the butterflies. We were in New Mexico.



Can a book change a life? If that book is about New Mexico, the answer is yes.

One afternoon in the early 1980s, I reached into a bin full of sale books at a bookshop in Charlotte, North Carolina. My hand grasped If Mountains Die by John Nichols, a shopworn copy marked down to a few dollars. Did my fingertips felt a tingle, like a twitch on an invisible line I had grasped? I took it home, started reading. I didn’t know it at the time, but that was the first step in my journey to New Mexico.

Welcome to my website, where I hope you’ll find books and writers who can change your life. The single thread that unites us is that New Mexico reeled us in either unexpectedly or by plan, and we’ve spent the rest of our lives in a love affair with this astonishing place.

“What I like about The Dry Line is the sense of place. It is a literary voyage to and celebration of New Mexico. Gault transforms the the arid landscape into a place of beauty and human and environmental upheavals. The characters could only live in that setting. I also appreciated the love stories---the development of a mature bond between two weathered adults and the evolution of parent-child love from birth to adolescence. It is a tale that draws you in and keeps you wanting to hear more. The story does not end--at least in this reader's mind. How about a sequel?”

-- Jasper Lawson 

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