Death Valley
Broder, Melissa2023
Book
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, most universal, and finest. This is Death Valley.
Main title:
Death Valley / Melissa Broder.
Author:
Broder, Melissa, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2023.©2023
Collation:
232 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781526665201 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.6
LC class:
PS3602.R6345
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
457204