Death Valley av Melissa Broder

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<b>¿Riotously original ... A triumph¿ </b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i><b>¿</b><b>A journey unlike any you''ve read before</b><b>¿ </b>NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH<b>¿</b><b>Her most profound book yet ... Surreal, hysterical and beguiling in every sense</b><b>¿ </b><i>GLAMOUR</i><b>The most profound book yet from the visionary author of <i>Milk Fed </i>and <i>The Pisces</i>, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story.</b>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 fami