Death Valley [electronic resource]

Melissa Broder2023

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'Riotously original ... A triumph' New York Times ' A journey unlike any you've read before ' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars ' Her most profound book yet ... Surreal, hysterical and beguiling in every sense ' GLAMOUR The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story. A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California high desert to escape a cloud of sorrow - for both her father in the ICU and a 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 ...