Death Valley : a novel
In Melissa Broder's astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California desert to escape a cloud of sorrow-both for her father in the ICU and a disabled husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides, however, is not peace but a path, thanks to a receptionist who recommends a nearby hike. Out on the sun-scorched trail, the woman encounters a towering cactus whose size and shape mean it should not exist in California. Yet the cactus is there, with a gash through its side that beckons like a familiar door. So she enters it. What this woman finds inside this mystical succulent sets her on a journey at once desolate and rich, hilarious and poignant.
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Women > Fiction. Cactus > Fiction. Motels > Fiction. Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) > Fiction. |
Genre |
Magic realist fiction. Black humor. |
- ISBN: 9781668024843 (hardcover)
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Physical Description
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232 pages ; 23 cm - Publisher 2023