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The Golden State

✍ Scribed by Kiesling, Lydia

Book ID: 110485268
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Tongue: English
Weight: 3 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780374718060

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✦ Synopsis

"The Golden State is a perfect evocation of the beautiful, strange, frightening, funny territory of new motherhood . . . A love story for our fractured era." —Karen Russell, author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove and Swamplandia!

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE

A gorgeous, raw debut novel about a young woman braving the ups and downs of motherhood in a fractured America

In Lydia Kiesling's razor-sharp debut novel, The Golden State, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent—her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States because of a "processing error"—Daphne takes refuge in a mobile home left to her by her grandparents in hopes that the quiet will bring...

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