{"product_id":"death-valley-by-melissa-broder-paperback-256-pages-english","title":"Death Valley by Melissa Broder: Paperback; 256 pages \/ English","description":"\u003cp\u003e[Scribner]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times (\"incandescent...hilarious...a triumph\"), Oprah Daily (\"surreal, absurd, lucid, and wise\"), Vanity Fair (\"Broder [is] a genius and a sorceress\"), and more!\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nFrom the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief and a “magical tale of survival” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nOut 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45436951527651,"sku":"9781668024867","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0356\/3906\/6759\/files\/0cd924ac10d9ba7f85ccf08aa6a240bdad9dcdc00695801cd6cee380f4673dc2.jpg?v=1724431288","url":"https:\/\/littleprofessorbookshop.com\/products\/death-valley-by-melissa-broder-paperback-256-pages-english","provider":"Little Professor","version":"1.0","type":"link"}