What awaits her inside this mystical succulent sets her on a journey at once desolate and rich, hilarious and poignant.
Yet the cactus is there, with a gash through its side that beckons like a familiar door. Out on the sun-scorched trail, the woman encounters a towering cactus whose size and shape mean it should not exist in California. What the motel provides, however, is not peace but a path, thanks to a receptionist who recommends a nearby hike. 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.
In Melissa Broder’s astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story.
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