Orin's Phoenix morning (p. 46)
And so to the glass canyons and merciless light of metro Phoenix, in a kind of desiccated circle, near the Tucson of his own father's desiccated youth.
Context
Orin's trade to Phoenix, named as what it is: "a kind of desiccated circle." The son fleeing the family lands in the same desert his father fled — the generational ring closing, with "desiccated" stamped on both arcs.