Death Valley

✍ Scribed by Melissa Broder

• Book ID: 111872366
• Publisher: Scribner
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: EN-US
• Weight: 512 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781668024898

✦ Synopsis

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.
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 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 enters it. What awaits her inside this mystical succulent sets her on a journey at once desolate and rich, hilarious and poignant.

This is Melissa Broder at her most imaginative,...