Death Valley
Broder, Melissa2023
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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.
Main title:
Death Valley / Melissa Broder.
Author:
Broder, Melissa, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2023.
Collation:
232 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Originally published: U.S.: Scribner.
ISBN:
9781526665218 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6AFFAF/HBK
LC class:
PS3602.R6345
Local class:
FT
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3584025