{"product_id":"death-valley-a-novel","title":"Death Valley: A Novel","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the visionary author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMilk Fed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Pisces\u003c\/i\u003e, a darkly funny novel about grief and a “magical tale of survival” (\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDeath Valley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFriday Black\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Cleary's Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47270819004696,"sku":"9781668024843","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/2852\/6872\/files\/9781668024843_a84e2.jpg?v=1701708555","url":"https:\/\/www.clearysbookstore.com\/products\/death-valley-a-novel","provider":"Cleary's Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}