{"product_id":"death-valley-by-melissa-broder-9781668024867","title":"Death Valley","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe New 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the visionary author of \u003ci\u003eMilk Fed\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Pisces\u003c\/i\u003e, a darkly absurdist novel about grief and a \"magical tale of survival\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).\u003c\/b\u003e\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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\u003eChain-Gang All-Stars\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47642838204652,"sku":"9781668024867","price":49.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/516c07155500453ad1063b75bbfcce19.jpg?v=1779161677","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/death-valley-by-melissa-broder-9781668024867","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}