An estranged mother and daughter reconnect while hunting treasure in the Utah desert in this complex debut from Kathleen Boland.

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Kathleen Boland’s “Scavengers” is a madcap adventure probing questions of reinvention, the wilderness, and the stories we tell ourselves

In Kathleen Boland’s “Scavengers,” a struggling woman sets out with her erratic mother in search of buried loot.