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The Cartographer of Sands

Jason Buchholz

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English
Green City Books
27 November 2025
Traveling across the landscapes of California, two brothers-a recent parolee and a Berkeley professor-go in search of their teenage sister who has vanished, looking for the reasons why she left home.

High in the hills of Berkeley, California, a father summons his two sons, Leonardo, a biology professor, and Gabriel, a recent parolee, and tasks them with locating their seventeen-year-old sister, Lenore, who has vanished, leaving a two-word note that simply reads: I'm okay.

The brothers' quests carry them in opposite directions-one northward to the Oregon border, the other southward to the Mexican border-as they search the length of California not just for their sister but for the reasons why she left home, reasons that will lead them into the heart of their mysterious family vocation of powerful healers.

In lyrical and precise prose, Buchholz conjures the lost horizons of the American West. The Cartographer of Sands charts the border territory-between the US and Mexico, between family members, between the ordinary and the mystical. Buchholz maps an undiscovered country of ancestral lineage, family connection, and existential revelation through characters that are at once familiar and profoundly mysterious.
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Imprint:   Green City Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 209mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 19mm
ISBN:   9781963101119
ISBN 10:   1963101111
Pages:   360
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jason Buchholz is the author of the novelA Paper Son(Tyrus Books, 2016), whichPublisher's Weeklydescribed as ""a gripping debut"" andBooklistdescribed as ""wonderfully imaginative."" He is the co-founder of Collaborist, an editorial boutique that provides writing, editing, and educational services for aspiring and established authors. He was an editor and the art director of Achiote Press, and his poetry and short fiction have appeared inGobbledegookandSwitchback. He graduated from UC Berkeley and holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of San Francisco. Jason lives in the East Bay area, California.

Reviews for The Cartographer of Sands

“Mesmerizing and magical, perfect from the first page to the last.” — Pedro Hoffmeister, author of American Afterlife ""In The Cartographer of Sands, Jason Buchholz charts the tremors of a family navigating secrets, mistakes, and the unknowable depths of their ancestry. Told with a lyrical hand and an eye for sensory detail, the story unfolds with no signposts—just the raw, immediate experience of characters living through what they cannot yet understand.   This is a novel where the mystical brushes up against the mundane—where visions bloom behind truck stops, and the sacred slips into the everyday. Rich in specificity and a profound sense of place, Cartographer explores the ripple effects of seemingly unrelated choices, the shifting lines of identity and purpose, and the maps we draw to find our way back to ourselves and each other."" —Nikki Van De Car, author of The Invisible Wild


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