Death Valley : a novel / Melissa Broder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broder, Melissa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Cactus--Fiction.

Cactus.

Motels--Fiction.

Motels.

Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)--Fiction.

Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.).

Fathers.

Grief.

Husbands.

Magic realism (Literature).

Survival.

United States--Death Valley.

Genre:

Magic realist fiction.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

232 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Scribner, 2023.

Summary:

"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 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. This is Melissa Broder at her most imaginative, most universal, and finest. This is Death Valley"-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version: Broder, Melissa. Death Valley

ISBN:

9781668024843

1668024845

OCLC:

1367955064