{"product_id":"9781526665225","title":"Death Valley","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Broder, Melissa\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 1 August 2024 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 240 pages\u003cbr\u003e129 x 198 x 18 | 178g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Riotously original ... A triumph’ NEW YORK TIMES‘A journey unlike any you've read before’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH‘Her most profound book yet ... Surreal, hysterical and beguiling in every sense’ GLAMOURThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is Melissa Broder at her most imaginative, most universal, and finest. This is Death Valley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR THE PISCES'Of all the books that I read this summer I think this was my absolute favourite. It really blew me away' DOLLY ALDERTON'Frank, provocative and brilliant' INDEPENDENT'Hilarious, poignant, sexy. A brilliant story about why we crave connection and how to find ourselves' ELLE'Laugh-out-loud funny' i\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Darling Reads","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48991565939012,"sku":"9781526665225","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/1265\/8244\/files\/9781526665225.jpg?v=1754908798","url":"https:\/\/darlingreadsbooks.pro\/products\/9781526665225","provider":"Darling Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}