Atmospheric and enthralling, Deadlands is a gorgeously rendered portrait of young womanhood in a world inhospitable to young women. Miluch explores the delicate ecosystem of an isolated family against the backdrop of a dying planet riddled with unlivable deadlands. She expertly conjures up a sense of creeping, claustrophobic dread while also telling a story that feels as expansive and evocative as the desert itself. A beautiful, blazing debut. Alison Wisdom, author of The Burning Season
I read this book in one sitting, totally gripped by the tense dance between family members and outsiders stranded together in a lethal landscape. The desert and the people in this novel are sources of both sustenance and threat in this suspenseful story where every character has their own voice, their own agenda, and their own secrets to keep. Caitlin Horrocks, author of Life Among the Terranauts
Deadlands is a profound and exquisitely written debut, a fresh exploration of how we are changed by the truths we unearth. Just as our narrator Georgia thinks of the arid landscape, the novel 'shines with a newness, a dangerous edge of possibility, sharp as a whetted knife.' Miluch is an extraordinary new talent. Peter Kispert, author of I Know You Know Who I Am
