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Zusatztext Vulnerable, witty, trippy and conceptually dazzling all at once Informationen zum Autor Melissa Broder is the author of the novels Milk Fed and The Pisces , the essay collection So Sad Today and five poetry collections, including Superdoom . She has written for The New York Times , Elle , and New York Magazine ’s The Cut. She lives in Los Angeles. melissabroder.com / @melissabroder / @sosadtoday Klappentext '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 Vorwort From the Women's Prize-longlisted author of The Pisces and Milk Fed , a comic novel about grief and survival in the California desert Zusammenfassung '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 ' GLAMOUR 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 'La...
