Panagiotis Kehagias

The Sixth Desert is a bold, propulsive literary epic—part family saga, part Hollywood tragedy, part American reckoning—unfolding in six self-contained but interconnected acts. Spanning Alta and Baja California, it moves backward in time from our fractured present to the antebellum South, excavating the myths, failures, and dark obsessions that have shaped America. At its heart is Maximilian von Maar, a...