{"product_id":"death-valley","title":"Death Valley","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of 2023 by\u003ci\u003e The\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e(\"incandescent...hilarious...a triumph\"), \u003ci\u003eOprah Daily \u003c\/i\u003e(\"surreal, absurd, lucid, and wise\"), \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e (\"Broder [is] a genius and a sorceress\"), and more!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the visionary author of \u003ci\u003eMilk Fed\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Pisces\u003c\/i\u003e, a darkly funny novel about grief and a \"magical tale of survival\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Melissa Broder's astonishingly profound new novel, 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 discovered on a nearby hike. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOut along the sun-scorched trail, the narrator 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeath Valley\u003c\/i\u003e is Melissa Broder at her most imaginative, most universal, and finest, and is \"a journey unlike any you've read before\" (Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of \u003ci\u003eFriday Black\u003c\/i\u003e).\r","brand":"Melissa Broder","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44510759780588,"sku":"9781668024843","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Library Binding - Large Print","offer_id":44510759813356,"sku":"9798885797160","price":52.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44510759846124,"sku":"9781668024867","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781668024843.jpg?v=1709493126","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/death-valley","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}