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2008 Artist Projects Recipients Susan Lang – The Sawtooth Complex. The writer will be conducting research toward completing a novel entitled, The Sawtooth Complex. The novel will take place in the San Bernardino Mountains and trace the story of a woman who must cope with the encroachment of developments in the canyon that she settled in and raised her family. Lang will be exploring the tricky relationships of homesteading versus development, preservation versus exploitation, among other themes. Lang lives in Prescott. Panel Comments: Lang’s project is to write a novel about the fiercely independent women who settled in the rugged mountains of the Southwest—present day Southwest. What is astonishing about this project is how she refuses working within the formula of the trilogy. In fact, in this new book she is working with a new language—simultaneously accepting and rejecting environmental language—in writing about place.
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