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DEATH VALLEY - MELISSA BRODER KARTONIERT (TB)

'Riotously original ... A triumph' New York Times 'A journey unlike any you've read before'
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah  author of Chain-Gang All-Stars 'There is deep wisdom in these pages'
Mary Beth Keane  author of Ask Again  Yes 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. 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. PRAISE 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

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