02059cam a2200325 i 4500 950210807 TxAuBib 20231012120000.0 230926s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781668024843 HRD 27.00 1668024845 HRD 27.00 TxAuBib rda Broder, Melissa, author. Death Valley [BOOK] : a novel / Melissa Broder. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Scribner, 2023. 232 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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. 20231012. Women novelists Fiction. Grief Fiction. Fathers and daughters Fiction. Cactus Fiction. Married people Fiction. Magic realist fiction. Psychological fiction.