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"Indian Wells" is a place-driven category for books set in or evoking the desert-resort enclave of the Coachella Valley — its palm-lined boulevards, mid-century modern estates, tennis courts and golf courses, seasonal influxes of wealthy visitors, and the wide, sunbaked landscape beyond. Works in this category range from literary fiction and domestic noir to romance, sports memoir (especially tennis), travel writing, and local history; they often probe themes of escape and reinvention, leisure and social stratification, secrecy beneath glamour, aging and retirement, and the environmental pressures (water, heat, land use) that shape life in an arid resort town. Recurring motifs include pools and sunsets, tournaments and tourist rituals, real-estate booms and quiet isolation — a setting where luxury and vulnerability coexist, producing stories that are both sunlit and strangely uncanny.

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